Talcott Parsons Quotes
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
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The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.
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The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
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I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
