Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.
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To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
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Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.
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I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.
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I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!
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Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.
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A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
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France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.
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The status quo is working.
