Anna Garlin Spencer Quotes
The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
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That boy from the music shop—he might be everything you believe he is. But in the eyes of our society, he is a convicted criminal. He has nothing to lose. He is stuck where he is. On the bottom. While you are walking away from the greatest opportunity a girl can have. To win. To become independent. To achieve international fame and choose the life you desire.
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I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
