Critical Quotes
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As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little bit more intensely. It's one of the reasons why I love theater because you never actually let go of it and it never feels like there's a tremendous distance between the process and the product.
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The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.
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The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
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Be critical of these institutions that we love, whether they be our sports teams or the criminal justice system. Be critical of what the police department is doing about sexual assault. Be critical of why prosecutors are not prosecuting sexual assault.
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Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
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All I am looking for is a fine combination of critical and commercial acclaim. Whether conventional or unconventional - does not matter.
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Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.
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The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
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Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.
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You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
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American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
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The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
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In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
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There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
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Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.
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To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
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Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.
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Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.
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I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.
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I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.
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It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
