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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If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?
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I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
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I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
