David Korten Quotes
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
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Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
