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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The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
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I can’t accept 'our nervous age,' since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
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There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
