Jane Jacobs Quotes
We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of the strength and security of a successful society.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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I just want to make everyone happy.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
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The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
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It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
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We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of the strength and security of a successful society.
