Ivan Illich Quotes
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I've always had really messy hair.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.
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It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.
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Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
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Leadership does not depend on being right.
