Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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I'm not graceful.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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The most striking thing to me about human space flight and my own personal experience is that I've seen dramatic changes on Earth. We humans are rapidly changing the planet. I've watched Amazonia as the rainforest has been cut down. That's something I've seen out the window. I'm very worried about that.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
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That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
