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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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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All my life, I've been a man of peace, working for peace, striving for peace, negotiating for peace. I've been a League of Nations man and a United Nations man and I'm still the same man with the same convictions, the same devotion to peace. I couldn't be other even if I wished. But I'm utterly convinced that the action we have taken is right.
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I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
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If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
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With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
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I'm really glad my food comes murdered.
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Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
