Donald Barthelme Quotes
The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
Donald Barthelme
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
Ram Shriram
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
Tawakkol Karman
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
Baron Hill
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
Safra A. Catz
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Feist
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
Narendra Modi
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Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
Patrick Modiano
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I always try to travel light.
Claire Tomalin
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Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
Astro Teller
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Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
Brian Tracy
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The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
Donald Barthelme