Michael Sandel Quotes
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
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You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.
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No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.
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The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be
