Juan Cole Quotes
I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
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If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?
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Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
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Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.
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I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Your skin is your largest organ, and it wants to breathe. There are so many times, like Fashion Week, when you [need to] think about all the stuff your skin and body have absorbed through makeup and products and all this stuff.
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
