Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes
Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
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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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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
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Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace.
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
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That beats any meat injection … that beats any fuckin cock in the world … Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair.
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La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.
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I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
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I did write a lot of TV themes - I wrote about 45 of them, and a couple of which are still reference and popular today, like 'Diff'rent Strokes' and 'Facts of Life.' But I was a limited musician.
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Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities for corruption.
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I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
