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15 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I haven’t spoken to them, but I think that what they’re going through has got resonances.”
02 / belief
“I think that comedies give you a chance to play with it, and I think that that’s a large part of their delight.”
03 / belief
“I think that that’s one of the most interesting explorations that he had in his books.”
04 / belief
“I’m interested in big questions. I think a lot of people aren’t. A lot of interviewers aren’t.”
05 / belief
“” If you quizzed him more thoroughly, he would say, “No, not always” or whatever, but I think that that has sometimes been tackled on by people as a flaw.”
06 / belief
“If we valued intelligent thinking, intelligent speaking in our public lives, I think we’d be less likely to get the kind of candidates that we’re getting.”
07 / evaluation
“The children had to call and tell them that their 60th wedding anniversary had just happened because it went by without them noticing.”
08 / evaluation
“René was not self-exiled. He came here after the war because it was a place where he could get a job.”
09 / evaluation
“I think that there are too many variables in almost any equation to make it foolproof in that sense.”
10 / evaluation
“I don’t know about false consciousness, but the momentum of a feeling can drive one into a mob without one being aware that that is exactly what they’re doing.”
11 / evaluation
“[laughs] He was sympathetic with the students, but as he commented, they complain because they have too much.”
12 / evaluation
“Again, I think the problem is, the Russians I know, my Russian friends — they know all of this stuff, but how do you get through to the others?”
13 / commitment
“Basically, the head of the Michigan State University Press’s series — when they approached me and asked me to think of an idea for writing about René, I noted that there had never been anything weaving together the life and the work, so the only reason that it happened is because I did it.”
14 / observation
“It’s this tendency for people to just join in to meet two momentums. It happens very fast in the US, I think, because so many of us are on social media.”
15 / evaluation
“What I concluded in that chapter was that Jean Michel Oughourlian, having been a second-generation Holocaust survivor — that had impressed him. That what seemed outrageous to us — the idea that René had seen a lynching — was not so outrageous to him because it had actually happened in the not-too-distant memory.”