Paul Provenza Quotes
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
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If Paul Ryan wants to talk about the soul of America, I ask him to look into his own soul. Because if he is saying we have no soul, he certainly has a hole in his. He needs to understand that every single person in this country has a right to expect that their government will take care of them in their greatest need.
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I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.
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For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
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I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
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What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
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I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.
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We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. And we must make sure that the life of the great trading nations of the world cannot in the future be strangled at any moment by some interruption to the free passage of the Canal.
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A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.
