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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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
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What makes evolution a scientific explanation is that it makes testable predictions. You only believe theories when they make non-obvious predictions that are confirmed by scientific evidence.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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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.
