Michael Schudson Quotes
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
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We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
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Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
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Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
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As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.
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Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
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I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
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When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.
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When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
