Aaron Swartz Quotes
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I love to write.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.
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Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
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Big stories need human stakes.
