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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I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.
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If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.
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I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
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I need to have people doubting me, because that's when you dig deep and find out what you're made of.
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My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
