William Beveridge Quotes
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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You don't want to look back and have any regrets because things are too hard.
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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I have very distinct things that I like. I have very distinct opinions. Just because I choose to be a little less overt out on the campaign trail doesn't mean I'm anything less than very opinionated and very intelligent.
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I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?
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Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.
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My highest priority is the safety of all Oregonians and their communities.
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I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.
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I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.
