Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
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Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
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Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.
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Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
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As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
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The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
