Melody Carlson Quotes
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.
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History, geography and future bind us. Let no one separate us. Together, we can create pillars of mutual respect that will support the common good for generations to come.
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.
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Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
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This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.
