Frances Perkins Quotes
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
