Michael Schudson Quotes
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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I think I suffer from some mild depression.
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My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.
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I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.
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Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.
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If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
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I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
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Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.
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I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.
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Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
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I've stated my position, and that is we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
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Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
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I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.
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Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.
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Why count the days, when even one days is enough for a man to know all happiness?
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Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of
