Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
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Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.
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The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
