Isabel Paterson Quotes
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
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People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
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Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.
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Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. … You should go through life knowing, 'I am somebody.'
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Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
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The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.
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Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.
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I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.
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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Lots of people have written to say 'Bake Off' has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it's exactly what I used to do with mine.
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I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
