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Michael Sandel Quotes

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

Michael Sandel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1953

Topics

Time Me Political Doing Philosophy

One of the things that happens in space is that there is a fluid shift. You get a lot of extra pressure, and it fills your sinuses, and the horseradish is a miracle worker for cleaning that out.

John M. Grunsfeld

Space Pressure You Cleaning Out Get

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

Michael Fassbender

People Feel Uncomfortable Way Normal

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

Time Together Goodbye Saying Mean

I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Mother Children School Two Years

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Tom Hiddleston

Yourself Mind Dream Never Audience

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

Ron Paul

Compromise America Play Washington

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

Mo Rocca

School High School You Know High

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

Jules Shear

Me Book Long I Can Play Want

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

Johnny Knoxville

God Great Suffering Think You Meet

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

Dick Van Dyke

Say Actor More Always Singer Well

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

Doug Aitken

Culture Energy Distance Need Seen

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

Donald Knuth

Talent Thought Better Got Show Knew