Michael Sandel Quotes

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

Michael Sandel

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We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

John Cameron

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Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

Jemima Khan

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Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

Michael Schiavo

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I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.

Denis Leary

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I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

Donald Trump

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If the case is close, 5-4, and let's say you are on the side that prevailed with the majority, there are not a lot of high-fives and back slaps. There is a moment of quiet, a moment of respect, maybe even sometimes awe in the process. We realize that one of us is going to have to write out a decision which teaches and gives reasons for what we do.

Anthony Kennedy

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Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Allen West

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Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

Peter Landesman

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My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.

Paula Creamer

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David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Tina Weymouth

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My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

Reza Aslan

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