Paul Tsongas Quotes
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.
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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
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I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
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I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of making the right half weigh less than the left half. I only read hardcover books because I like the resistance and the presence on a bookshelf.
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I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.
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The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
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This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
