E. F. Schumacher Quotes
The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
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The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.
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The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'
