Michael Schudson Quotes
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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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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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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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 don't like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people's situations unless they come to me and ask for help.
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I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
