E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
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I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
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A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.
Nastassja Kinski -
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
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Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.
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Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
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This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I'm kind of a 'what you see is what you get' type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
