Michael Schudson Quotes
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
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I never use that word, retire.
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This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.
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Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
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It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.
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A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.
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I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
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It will spell out that we are approaching the end of the final opportunity that Saddam Hussein was given to completely disarm in substance as well as process.
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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
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Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.
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Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
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10 years ago in 2006, nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.
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We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.
