Nathanael West Quotes
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I like being unconventional.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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I'm a carnivore. I really like to eat meat. I crave iron, so I am definitely not the kind of person who you will find eating a salad.
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I am a very physical actor. I generally use my hands a lot.
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You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.
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As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
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I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.
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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.
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Hope is paltry food for living.
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Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
