Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.
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I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.
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Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.
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A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.
