David Korten Quotes
There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
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I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
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Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn't even regularly check my breasts.
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I would just like to say something to all the women out there. You're not the only one that's probably going through something, so I feel as though if one person speaks up, maybe it - hopefully - will be a domino effect.
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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
