Jon Oringer Quotes
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.
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You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.
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The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
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Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
