Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
