Amy Richards Quotes
Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!
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When my last relationship broke up, I bought a house one door along from my ex so that our daughter could continue to see as much of both of us as possible. This seems to me eminently sane and civilised.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
