William Greider Quotes
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
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À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coupRendez un baiser ou un coupMais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendreOffrez toute la haine de votre coeurCar vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
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As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
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We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.
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I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.
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It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.
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Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
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Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.
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If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.
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There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
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I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.
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When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.
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What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.
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I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.
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Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
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The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
