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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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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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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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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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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If you want me to be a cry baby, I cannot: I am the leader of a country. If you want to give me something and then withdraw it, fine; I must respect your decision.
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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If it is wrong to wreck the planet, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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We are trying to see how we can help to scale down the violence, and the situation of tension, and therefore to return to what is a dream of everybody, to try to negotiate a permanent peace.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
