Bernice L. McFadden Quotes
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
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Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
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Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
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When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
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I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.
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Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
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I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.
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That’s who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.
