Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party.
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Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
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I think we all carry a depressive streak in us but most people just hide it. A lot of people think that entertainment has to be something loud, cheerful and happy. I don't buy into it. Depression can be very inspiring. At least for me it can be. The quiet aspects of life are very important, because let's face it, life is pretty difficult.
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When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.
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Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
