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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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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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.
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You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
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I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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I set up Droga5 because I really believe in the power of advertising. But I believe in the power of advertising that's in synch with what consumers want.
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If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
