David Korten Quotes
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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I'm a fast writer.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
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Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.
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Excess is excrement.
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If the Church, white or black, is to express the true philosophy of Jesus Christ, Himself a worker, it will not lend itself to the creed of oppressive capitalism which would deny to the servant his just hire.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.
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His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking.
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We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.
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People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
