Noam Chomsky Quotes
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.
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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.
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If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.
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This was a very difficult determination in an extremely close race. Both men will make far better Virginia chief executives than their critics would lead you to believe.
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This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.
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Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.
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As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
