Wayne Gerard Trotman Quotes
As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
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I regret all of my books.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.
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I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.
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As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
