Marvin Harris Quotes
Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I want to serve the people.
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Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.
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I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.
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Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.
