E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
Charles B. Rangel -
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
