Klaus Schwab Quotes
A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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I suppose - in the last resort - you trust life - or you don't. Well - I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
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I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.
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George Wallace is gone; Bull Connor is dead. He's not coming back.
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
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I'm not a super carbonated guy: some people like drinking their beer like it's a champagne, right? It's not my vibe.
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If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
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Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
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I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
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A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
