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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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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I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.
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My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.
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It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.
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It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of... It's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really, really mess up your life.
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You can't look forward and backward at the same time.
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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.
