David Korten Quotes
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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When I'm on set, I know what I want.
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With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.
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But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
