Keith Olbermann Quotes
As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
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We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all - He knows - HE knows!
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We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
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As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
