Todd Gitlin Quotes

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Todd Gitlin

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I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.

John Oliver

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If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection.

Matt Lauer

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I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.

Michael Arden

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I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

Amy Lee

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

John Ralston Saul

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Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was working as a journeyman for the airport's resident maintenance crew - a small army of union electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.

Amor Towles

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You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

Stephen Lang

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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Shirley Jones

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Freddie had this unbelievable power and stamina. He had range both in his voice and in style. It's hard to find someone that can do everything he could do.

Roger Taylor

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I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

Marty Feldman

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I have a British and an American passport.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Films are like oxygen for me.

Anurag Kashyap

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