Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.
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And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
