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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the 50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. – Gary Ross

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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. – Gary Ross

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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first theyre going to love Harry Potter, or they may love The Hunger Games, but after that, theyre going to love the act of reading and wonder, What else can I read? – Gary Ross

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You cant tell your kids to read if youre just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think its important to walk the walk. Its a wonderful shared time. – Gary Ross

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Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. – Janet Napolitano

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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. – Jesse Jackson

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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. – Bryant H. McGill

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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. – Richard Wagner

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Women get the attention when we get into the mens arena, and thats sad. – Billie Jean King

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