Donella Meadows Quotes
The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.
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I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
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Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.
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The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.
