William Greider Quotes
Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I'm learning every day.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.
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You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
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When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
