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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
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...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.
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People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.
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I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm a fan of downloading, both legal and illegal, and the open-source ethos that it harbours for the future is a good one.
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There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
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If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
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In the end, we are our choices.
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Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
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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.
