Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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I started out as a Democrat.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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I just want to continue to play football and be myself.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
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I would hate to meet myself at 15.
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In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
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What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This 'seeing' is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual's work.
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It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
