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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The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.
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We enjoyed an incredible response when we did the video for 'Bringin' On The Heartbreak'. We did it a couple of months after the album had been released and it perked up sales. We really enjoyed making them - each video had a different theme and we did them all at one time over the span of a couple of days. Our music stands up on its own, but the video adds an extra element.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
