Cass Sunstein (Cass Robert Sunstein) Quotes
My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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I suppose I would be a logical choice to play the Doctor just because Giles, my character in Buffy, has the same light and dark sides and quirkiness as Doctor Who.
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I will find you there where our low life heightens, Where the door of the Wonder again unbars, Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens, In the Stars behind the stars.
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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.
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People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
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To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.
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I love being in my own skin, and I hope other women start feeling better about themselves and waste less energy being ashamed of their bodies.
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Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.
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I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.
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The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.
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I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.
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We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Playing the assholes in the movie is fun.
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I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.
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No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.
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My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.
