Donella Meadows Quotes
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I got through college.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
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I used to watch 'Doctor Who' as a child with William Hartnell and Pat Troughton in the black-and-white days, so being cast is brilliant.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.
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Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
