R. Lee Wrights Quotes
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
