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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I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.
Elaine Scarry
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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