William Greider Quotes
The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
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The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.
