Walter F. Ulmer Quotes
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
