Emily Matchar Quotes
A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
Maelle Gavet
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
Safak Pavey
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
Adam Cohen
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
Barry Commoner
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Ira Glass
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There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
Viktor Orban
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
Aaron Neville
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Nat King Cole
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
Yair Lapid
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
Omar Bongo
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
Dana Brunetti
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
Ward Churchill
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Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
Ira Sachs
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Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water we drink contains poison, our cultures are systematically replaced by "anti-culture", history is a big lie, et cetera et cetera. Of all the options I chose to start this blog, to spread dissent, to tell others - yes Burzum fans too - that there is an alternative to all of this.
Varg Vikernes Burzum
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.
Susanne Langer
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
Emily Matchar