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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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
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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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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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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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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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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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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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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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We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.
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There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.
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Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
