Abraham Flexner Quotes
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Quotes to Explore
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
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That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I'll want to show people the darker side... But right now, I'm having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
