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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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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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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You can be a doctor and I’ll still help you. You can be an engineer and I can help you. You can be a scientist and I’ll help you, whoever you are because I am not helping anything else. I am helping you! Peace on this Earth doesn’t begin by great ideas. Peace on Earth begins with you.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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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.
