Nancy Wilson Quotes
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
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I don't miss politics.
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Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
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After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.
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Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.
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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
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There's a lot of pressure to look good, have the gun, know what you're doing and be one of the boys. I was like, "I don't want to be one of the boys. I want to be a doctor. I want to be cerebral. I want to sit back and just use something else. I don't want to do the stunts. Let the boys do that. I'm just going to be the doctor who's about taking care of other people."
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When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
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The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.
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It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.
