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 take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
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In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
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The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
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It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.
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An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
