Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
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Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
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Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.
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You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
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I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.
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Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.
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Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
