Gaylord Nelson Quotes
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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I'm not a party person.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
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The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.
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There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.
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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.
