Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott (A. O. Scott) Quotes
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.
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I found Beam when he was 16 years old. He dropped his SoundCloud page onto my Facebook. 'I listened to it and was like, these tracks are actually dope.'
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
