Donella Meadows Quotes
Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.
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I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world
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Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
