E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Quotes
“The distance between one historical period and another is a very small step in comparison to the huge metaphysical gap we must leap to understand the perspective of another person in any time or place.”
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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My name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m running for President. It’s been a long time since I said those words the first time, and now I’ve come here after seeing our great country to accept your nomination.
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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.
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I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous, with that whole lifestyle. I had to realize I could find a balance between what I like to do and what people think you're 'supposed' to do as an actress.
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There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
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“The distance between one historical period and another is a very small step in comparison to the huge metaphysical gap we must leap to understand the perspective of another person in any time or place.”
