Major Owens Quotes
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I don't like allegories.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.
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People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
