Colin Ward Quotes
The ideal of a self-organizing society based on voluntary cooperation rather than upon coercion is irrepressible.
Colin Ward
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Aarti Sequeira
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
Walter Russell Mead
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
Sam Simon
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Madeleine Albright
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
Victoria Pendleton
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
Rachael Taylor
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Olin Miller
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When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
Rahm Emanuel
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
Aasif Mandvi
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
Pat Buchanan
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
R. L. Stine