Peter Shumlin Quotes
Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart.
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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
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The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.
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All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.
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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
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Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.
