Michael Gurian Quotes
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
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Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.
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Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
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I have been a proponent of dramatically expanding the AmeriCorps program. By increasing the pay of participants to a living wage, it can act as a jobs program that, rather than trying to predict what will be technically viable jobs, will value social support and provide jobs that make communities stronger.
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One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.