Abba Eban Quotes
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
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I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
