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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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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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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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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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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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.
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In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.
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If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.
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The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.
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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.
