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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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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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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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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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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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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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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We want all the information because we do intend to get to the bottom of why some of these insurance policies have lapsed.
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When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.
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Big stories need human stakes.
