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Robert Reich Quotes

Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1946

Topics

People Donald Trump More Need Fresh

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Love People Legacy You Fall Play

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

Time Together Window Problems You

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

Stephan Jenkins

Music Myself Together Lost Never

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Best Mind Facts Map Psychology Web

I make more movies than I see.

Movies More See I See Make Than

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

Music Painting Small Drawing Create

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Life Business Travel My Life Doing

I was watching TV one day, and there was this open casting call for extras, and my brother says, 'You wanna try out for this movie?' and I said, 'No, I'm okay.' And then he said, 'Do you wanna be on a DVD?' And I said, 'I wanna be on a DVD!,' so I tried out.

Day Brother You Said One Day Okay

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

Live Time Wife Up Going Working

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Art Talent New Nothing Nothing New

I generally work out every day. If I'm at work, between takes I'll do push-ups and an ab routine. I'm there for anywhere from 10 to 16 hours a day, so sometimes I can't work out at my house. I will do sit-ups on the stairs, I work out in the interrogation room. It gets the blood going, and it keeps you up.

Work Day You Routine House Stairs

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

Life Patriotism Believe Nationalism

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