Arthur Dobrin Quotes
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community.
Quotes to Explore
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
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What! from his helpless Creature be repaid Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd - Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer - Oh, the sorry trade!
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
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I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.
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My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.
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In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community.
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The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.
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That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
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What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community.
