Jacques Delors Quotes
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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I want to have a long career.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.
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I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.
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Most people are more deeply influenced by one clear, vivid, personal example than by an abundance of statistical data.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
