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Related We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody... EMMA CAULFIELD You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman... ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put st... CHRIS CHRISTIE That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i... DANIEL ESPINOSA If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them task... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible... JAMES C. DOBSON I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we d... BOBBY KNIGHT The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't... ROBIN INCE Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them. BETSY DEVOS Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don... CHRIS CRUTCHER Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I... CHINUA ACHEBE Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media... AMY JO MARTIN If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old,... HENRY ROLLINS There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don... BILL KELLER In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind... MARINE LE PEN My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just c... WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that y... WENTWORTH MILLER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the ... DANIEL KEYS MORAN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people lik... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctr... J. I. PACKER I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o... ELMORE LEONARD I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we ... RACHEL ZOE I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick ... MARY BERRY My first TV show was 2003. You wouldn't be in the game this long if you were using stooges and a... KEITH BARRY When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let t... ZIGGY MARLEY The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Don’t try to fit in; try to change. DEBASISH MRIDHA If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't ... TIM HARDAWAY We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because w... ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR Never be afraid to be in love. It is the place where your heart and your soul will find solace. DEBASISH MRIDHA I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've neve... RIK MAYALL I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze ... ERIN O'CONNOR I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Wa... JORGE RAMOS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren... CAMILLA LACKBERG I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim. SHAH RUKH KHAN I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl... KIRSTEN DUNST So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te... MICHAEL J. FOX To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about bui... ANGELA DUCKWORTH We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their... GIULIANA RANCIC Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our... JOYCE BROTHERS We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't ... CAROLYN CHUTE I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in ra... FRANCESCO QUINN If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic,... SHARON JONES Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation. POPE FRANCIS She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing. MARY BUTTS I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then. EARL CAMPBELL I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't t... TOM COLICCHIO Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't... EDWARD JAMES OLMOS I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say... FRED COUPLES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores. OLIVIER THEYSKENS We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's chil... MO BROOKS We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemploy... AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't r... BEN QUAYLE When we are children or teenagers, most of us experience something which has devastating effects on ... MARINO BACCARINI I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and wha... ANNIE POTTS I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome... TEMITOPE IBRAHIM We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, w... BONNIE HAMMER Don't take 'no' for an answer. ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think t... EDWARD SNOWDEN People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. RICHARD M. NIXON I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be assoc... 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DEAN KAMEN You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do t... WALTER ISAACSON I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you.... KOBE BRYANT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to inv... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experienc... JIMMY CARTER In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't sa... NICK VUJICIC Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads y... TIM MCGRAW We just don't do it for them. We teach them the process. What we do, in essence, is teach people to ... 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MICHAEL DYSON I just want to keep playing as I have been doing and shooting sub-par rounds. I think if one of us s... SIMON DYSON It's nice to see our old cars here. There's no one better to give some feedback on the car than Andy... CHRIS DYSON Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test... GEORGE DYSON The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carb... FREEMAN DYSON The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come ... FREEMAN DYSON I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so impo... FREEMAN DYSON Life always promises to give the world a person to take away everything bad. ELOISE DYSON Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that ... GEORGE DYSON Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we
are different that ea... BRIAN DYSON A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha... FREEMAN DYSON We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most ... FREEMAN DYSON Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them. FREEMAN DYSON I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But ... ESTHER DYSON The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a c... FREEMAN DYSON Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again... ESTHER DYSON I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are st... GEORGE DYSON Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. FREEMAN DYSON We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types. ESTHER DYSON There are also computers with Windows that stick. ESTHER DYSON Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enha... ESTHER DYSON The internet has many fathers but he's one of the main ones. He's an evangelist to the internet comm... ESTHER DYSON I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful ap... FREEMAN DYSON You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi... FREEMAN DYSON The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. FREEMAN DYSON I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day. FREEMAN DYSON It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To... ESTHER DYSON It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it e... MICHAEL DYSON Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology ... ESTHER DYSON As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom. ESTHER DYSON A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. ESTHER DYSON I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. ESTHER DYSON In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get ... ESTHER DYSON In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little prog... ESTHER DYSON There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadv... ESTHER DYSON Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities. ESTHER DYSON I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is... ESTHER DYSON I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of hi... ESTHER DYSON Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal. GEORGE DYSON The eagle was one of the best shots I have ever hit. I had 242 yards to the flag, and I hit a 5-wood... SIMON DYSON I think he is one of the best up-and-coming players I have seen. It won't be long before he is sat h... SIMON DYSON It's been a long time coming. A couple of years ago I thought it might never happen, but this year I... SIMON DYSON Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I f... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-n... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American pr... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves u... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, u... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how inform... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enor... FREEMAN JOHN DYSON He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rap... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his hero... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you g... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words &... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone dar... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and Go... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation;... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Ain't no gay filter for the cash. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day,... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jack... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply out... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fat... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON