E. F. Schumacher Quotes
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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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.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.
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A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
