Abigail Disney Quotes
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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Everyone in my family still lives in Kalamazoo.
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Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about.
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The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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We can have all of the best ideas in the world, but if we do not have a system to get our tasks completed, we will fail.
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The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
