E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.E. F. Schumacher
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
Abbas Kiarostami -
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt -
I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
Gavin Andresen -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
Gary Johnson -
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
Felix Dennis
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
Quavo Migos -
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White -
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
Karen Duffy -
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
Ralph Nader -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
Ireland Baldwin
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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
Elmore Leonard -
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
Marcus Aurelius -
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
Jamie Bamber -
The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.
Tyrese Gibson -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
Alan Alda -
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.
E. F. Schumacher