Winthrop Rockefeller Quotes
In them one can see the spontaneous-and often aesthetic-expression of a people reflected, not in a gilt-framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I was an expert horseman.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
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As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.
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Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.
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I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.
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I'm not quite used to being seen through the eyes of fans yet. Being met with squeals and screams - I haven't gotten used to that.
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I really like melodies.
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I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of money for an MFA program and still not have the slightest idea of how one goes about becoming a writer. So, I'm always flabbergasted when people say, "Oh, I was invited to do a reading, but I'm not going to read because I don't have a book.".
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I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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In them one can see the spontaneous-and often aesthetic-expression of a people reflected, not in a gilt-framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.
