John Dewey Quotes
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Why would heavy metal ever go away?
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Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
