Michael Sandel Quotes

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

Michael Sandel

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MoneyValueChildBookReadingYou

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

John Banville

WorkArtMyselfPeoplePresentKnow

All homeowners in America may deduct mortgage interest on their first and second homes.

Matthew Desmond

AmericaMortgageFirstMayInterest

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

LoveLovedLovingHumanBeingSake

Personality traits form at an early age and are fixed by early adulthood. Many important things about you change over the course of your lifetime, but your personality isn't one of them.

Travis Bradberry

ChangeAgePersonalityYouEarly

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Robert Benchley

ChildrenCuriositySmallHouseOld

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Rosalind Russell

BeautyWomanTalentJoyPerformance

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

Miles Teller

CollegeAmbitionPartyGoAlways

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

Julia Holter

MusicMeKnowImportantSeriously

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

Jean de la Bruyere

PeopleHardPalaceMarbleCourt

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

Jose Maria Aznar

LeaderTimeOpinionBetterPolitical

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

Demetrious Johnson

LifeLivePeopleMeMy LifeOutlook

Sunday nights are my favourite.

Debra Stephenson

SundayNightsFavourite

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