E. F. Schumacher Quotes
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves
