Jonathan Schell Quotes
The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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People take things so seriously.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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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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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.
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The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
