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Frederick Wiseman Quotes

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Frederick Wiseman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1930

Topics

Mind World Way Content Whose Works

Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.

Work Nothing More Difficult Would

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Angela Duckworth

Free Motivation Choose Choice Three

To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.

You Scholar Salesman Well Dean

All women like to look up to their men.

Women Men Look Up Like All Women

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.

Growth Culture Potential America

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

Simple Research Brain Born Never

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Style Yourself Value Writing You

I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done.

Mitch McConnell

Think Doing Enough Donald Trump Know

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Life Day Opinion Every Day Reward

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

Good Great Me You Know Sometimes

Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

Change Money Government Better You

I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Shadow People Think Legal Problem

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