Benjamin Mkapa Quotes
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
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Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
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There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
