E. F. Schumacher Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
Bailee Madison -
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
Valerie Jarrett -
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
Randy Pausch -
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
Ed Rendell -
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham -
If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
Landon Donovan -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
Daniel Drew
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
Mara Liasson -
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
Nadine Gordimer -
I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
Gemma Chan -
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James -
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. Schumacher