Walter Munk Quotes
This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of the advantages of the wealthy Western nations and help out people who are less fortunate. That is the key. I think we can do it if we have more compassion for one another.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
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For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
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Isn't it terrible what's happening to our forests?
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So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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The papers that flourish will be papers that serve a national audience. Papers that have figured out how to make the transition to the electronic platform that aren't simply providing a duplicate experience of the words on paper experience, but are doing something that arises organically from the new electronic medium. It's really just a matter of finding the right platforms for the way people want to read newspapers. I mean, maybe it will be the iPhone. But one way or another, newspapers on paper are just not really going to exist to any significant degree within a decade.
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The key thing to do with them is keep the rabbits off the bases.
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This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of the advantages of the wealthy Western nations and help out people who are less fortunate. That is the key. I think we can do it if we have more compassion for one another.
