Michael Schudson Quotes
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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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I like the idea of having a superordinary life.
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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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We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
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You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.
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Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.
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I don't bring my life into a character at all.
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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.
