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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The first duty of life is to live.
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Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.
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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
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If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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It wasn’t just her hand in his, their bodies side by side on the divan. It was a sense that they were facing not just this trial together, but a life. It wouldn’t be easy. It wouldn’t even always be fun. But even at the worst times, it would be better for her by his side.
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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
