Michael Sandel Quotes
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.
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I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.
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I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
