Ricky Reed (Eric Burton Frederic) Quotes
I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
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A leader of immense stature who always spoke his mind.
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The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
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A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
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No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
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The business schools could do a better job teaching face-to-face management, the actual work of organizing and helping along the efforts of others in the organization. The more quantitative disciplines have gotten more attention, often more research dollars. Areas like organizational science or, even mushier, leadership have had more trouble settling on what it's important to teach, and how. It's rather like strategy itself, which as I argue in the book, has had trouble through most of its history figuring out how to incorporate people, their motivation and ability, into its calculations.
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
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If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.
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I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.
