Michael Schudson Quotes
Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
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I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind.' I don't know if that's something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.
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There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
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Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.
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That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.
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Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.
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The United Nations has no business in our elections.
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Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.
