Will Hutton Quotes
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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The reason why all those we have mentioned hold false opinions and make impious or ignorant assertions about God appears to be nothing else but this, that scripture is not understood in its spiritual sense, but is interpreted according to the bare letter.
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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
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Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.
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If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we're making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message.
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Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!
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I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
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Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.
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But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.
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I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
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The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.
