Arthur M. Schlesinger Quotes
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
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She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.
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The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.
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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.
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When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
