Chief Joseph Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.
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In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.
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My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
