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 don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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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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Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
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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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Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.
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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
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I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
