Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.
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Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!
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As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive
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The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
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So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
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Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?
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Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.
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It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.
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I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.
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No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
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In situations like that, you're really unsure about how you're going to perform, but once I got out there (I was OK), ... Believe me, I've been doing this since I was 6 years old. It's nothing. This is what I do. This is what I get paid to do.
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I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.
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A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"
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A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.
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“What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.