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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not che

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and its all different. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule. – Michael Mandelbaum

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I dont know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views. – Chris Evans

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When I started to watch some of the films Id done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see. – Heath Ledger

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Im doing Les Miserables, the movie. Ive done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so Ive been like, Come on, lets do a movie/musical. – Hugh Jackman

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People go to the movies to watch a film and all theyre thinking about is the actresss cellulite they saw in a magazine. – Robert Carlyle

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