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Joseph Campbell Quotes

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1904 - October 31, 1987

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Computers Rules Mercy Old Like Gods

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.

Joan Ganz Cooney

Good Children Start Think Doing

The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

Man Mistake Think Thought Name Know

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Moment Me True Try Write Poet

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

Andie MacDowell

Me You Look Want Grandmother Old

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Work Talent Search Meaningful Lots

One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Responsibility Follow Cannot He Ends

What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.

Baby Border American You Immigrants

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

Jeanette Winterson

I Am People Me Friends Enough Know

I became a Catholic against my will.

Will Against Catholic Became

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

Work Together People Political Wall

You are one of the forces of nature.

Nature You Forces

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

Feel Questions More Ask Satisfied

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