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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. – David Mamet

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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. – David Mamet

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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. – Lord Mansfield

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I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller

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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. – Immanuel Kant

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Somehow we cant live outside the politics of race. Theres something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. – Anna Deavere Smith

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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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