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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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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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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When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
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Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.
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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
