William C. Kirby Quotes
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I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.
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The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
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A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
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I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.
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I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
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Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
