David Korten Quotes
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.
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Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.
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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
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One thing I really want to explore is writing.
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It was very tough to get people to believe in my project. Everyone had their own ideas, and they wanted to mold me into something I wasn't.
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If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
