E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I have no message.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.
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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
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Any asshole can make a good movie for $100 million. I think it's way harder to make a movie with no money, and to start with no contacts and work your way up to international productions.
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I feel like everything I tried to do is in there.
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Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
