Wendell Berry Quotes
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I'm usually always a big fan of the people that I'm working with, because I get to work with big people.
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I have to make sure I get the right amount of protein and iron, and I take supplements for that. I think people would be surprised if they saw my diet, though; it's very normal.
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I've been to most parts of India over the years, but Jaipur is my favourite city. Inspiration can be found at every turn.
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It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.
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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
