There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think. . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
What yells out at the US public. . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
He doesn't like my name. . . Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower. . . But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.
I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.
There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.
I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and I consider OD to be one of the most brilliant men´s choirs in the world. The singers are highly professional and their repertoire is of a very wide range, but then they have been trained for years by Eric Ericson, the world´s leading choir conductor. I also admire the strength and the beauty of their voices. OD is an extraordinary powerful choir!