Sidney Hook Quotes
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Quotes to Explore
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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Education is very important to me.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
