John Podhoretz Quotes
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
John Podhoretz
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
J. D. Vance
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
Wang Jianlin
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
Adam Carolla
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
R. Kelly
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
Edgar Wright
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
Hans Jonas
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
H. G. Bissinger
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
Barbara Sukowa
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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel
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We're reminded yet again: we are stronger, we are smarter, we have more fun when we include each other - when we include as many perspectives as possible.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
Baz Luhrmann
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When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
Hippolyte Taine
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
Malcolm Wallop
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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
John Podhoretz
