Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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I think the general public is going to be surprised by this. It's not out there yet.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
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Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.
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The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
