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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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
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It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.
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The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be
