William Graham Sumner Quotes
If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I just want to do my job.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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To survive is to win.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
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For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
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Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
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If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?
