Maurice Strong Quotes
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
Quotes to Explore
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).
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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.
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I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.
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The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.
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I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
