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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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 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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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury - thin necks, big heads. They're not as coordinated; they're not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth.
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You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'
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Walt Garrison is the ultimate cowboy. A rodeo cowboy growing up in Lewisville, Texas; an Oklahoma State Cowboy as a college football fullback in 1963-65; a Dallas Cowboy as an NFL fullback 1966-74; and still a cowboy at heart, in every way.
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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
