Eugene Genovese Quotes
We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Our whole culture in this country now is so conformist. I don't even meet that many freaks any more.
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They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
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The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
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A lot of people don't know that I'm really a silly guy. I don't take anything seriously. It takes a lot of energy for me to take something seriously.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society.
