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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."
History

"You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood."
Life

"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."
Identity

"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
History

"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
Work

"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed."
Work

"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
Focus

"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
Lifestyle

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."
Music

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."
Film
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