David Roochnik Quotes

The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.

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• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

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• My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

  

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• Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.

  

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• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

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• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

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• It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

  

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• To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

  

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• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

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• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

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• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  

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• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

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• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

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• Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

  

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• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

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• My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

  

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• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  

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• The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.

  

  David Roochnik
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Teacher