Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I like to be against the odds.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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When there were cases of Ebola in the States, I respected that people wanted to address concerns and take some sort of action, but the focus turned completely to the U.S. At one point, we started to wonder, Where is the Ebola epidemic happening? The States - or West Africa?
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I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
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The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.
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Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
