Amitai Etzioni Quotes
Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
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It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
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Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.
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We want people to feel like they can take steps to solve problems without asking permission.
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Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.
