Chief Seattle Quotes
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
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The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'
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Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
