Milton Sapirstein Quotes

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton Sapirstein

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• Fanatics

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• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  

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• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
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• If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
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• People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
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• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Trees
  • Fruit
  • Milk

• I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Power
  • Now
  • Defeat

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Pleasure

• If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Things
  • Matter
  • Obsessed

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• It's like a pylon.

  

  Karl Pilkington

• Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Women
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• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Trump

• I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.

  

  James Gray
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Live
  • Space
  • Perspective

• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Violence
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• Don't hate the media, become the media.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Hate

• I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

  

  Doris Roberts
  • Up
  • She
  • Alone

• I've been so blessed and so lucky to be a part of great shows like 'Chuck' and projects 'Daybreak.'

  

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  • Blessed
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  • Daybreak

• If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Energy

• If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

  

  Orville Wright
  • True
  • Hope
  • Assumption

• To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Creation
  • Impulse
  • Motive

• There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

  

  Milton Sapirstein
  • Assumption
  • Impulse
  • Fanatics