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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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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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 always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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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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There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
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Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
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I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
