Borje Ekholm Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.
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I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. I think we need a national conversation to get to a better Medicare system with more choices for seniors.
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It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
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Our job and commitment is to rebuild Ericsson to be successful long-term.
