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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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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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
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The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.
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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.
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The Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unités, or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.
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There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
