James Tobin Quotes
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
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I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.
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You used to dealing with basic bitches,Basic shit all the time.I'm a new classic, upgrade your statusFrom a standby to a frequent flyer.
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At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
