Michael Kinsley Quotes
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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My mother is my hero.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
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I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
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If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.
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The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
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I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.
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There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
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I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me.
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.
