Maurice Strong Quotes
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'
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In other words, it is my view that the brain is preprogrammed to feel good (i.e., to seek a sense of well-being/gratification). This is what I term the gratification principle. This usually occurs as the result of instinctive salient/relevant acts or what we normatively decide are salient/relevant acts.
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It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
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You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
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I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.
