Victor Davis Hanson Quotes
Our top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
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I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
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I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?
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If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.
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I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
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A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
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Our top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.
