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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• It's like a pylon.

  

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

  

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• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  

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• Don't hate the media, become the media.

  

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• The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

  

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• I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

  

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• I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.

  

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• I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

  

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  • Fanatics

• 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