Ralph Nader Quotes
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.
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With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or whatever. It's just about collaboration; it's about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women's athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.
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Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.
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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
