Maurice Strong Quotes
'Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.'Maurice Strong
Quotes to Explore
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
Felicia Day -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
Dan T. Cathy
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
Adam Ferrara -
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
Park Chan-wook -
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
Sally Schneider -
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
Randa Haines -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke -
There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
Daniel Barenboim
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
Ralph Thomas Walker -
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
Gary Wright
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I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
Kathryn Harrison -
One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
Dan Castellaneta -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna -
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. Mencken -
'Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.'
Maurice Strong