David Gottesman Quotes
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother is 90 percent blind and deaf. She left and moved all the way to California. So I left my two older sisters and my father behind at the age of eleven and moved cross-country to take care of her.
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A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.
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The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.
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I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
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I was 15 when I started making music properly.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
