Elna Baker Quotes
My dad says he has doubts all the time, but he doesn't allow them to question that moment when he was nineteen.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
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The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
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I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.
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Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.
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It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
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Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.
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Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
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My dad says he has doubts all the time, but he doesn't allow them to question that moment when he was nineteen.
