Stephanie Coontz Quotes
The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
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The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.
