Charles H. Percy Quotes
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.
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I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.
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I wanted to be the best in the world.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
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I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.
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There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
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Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
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An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
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Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness is a big one—trying to get ahead of others, stepping on each other. We become frustrated and angry with each other. We try to control others; we condemn them. All of these things stem from one false belief, “I am apart, separate from everything else.
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When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.
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I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'
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Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
