William Damon Quotes
There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.
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It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
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I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
