Bill Moyers Quotes
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
