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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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 make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
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Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.
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I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.
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The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.
