Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
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I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
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A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.
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I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.
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What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
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In Iraq, American administration said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.
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The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
