Aviva Chomsky Quotes
If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
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I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
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Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
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Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.
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Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
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The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.
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You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."
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If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.
