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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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 want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
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I think that as far as talent, we have enough to get over the hump. We are just not doing it. You can?t coach it, you can?t preach it. It is just something that players must be willing to do.
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We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.