Erik Weihenmayer Quotes
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
Kate Hudson -
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
Barry Ritholtz -
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Dan Savage -
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles -
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie -
As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
Lance Loud -
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
Ian Somerhalder -
I am not an image. I am a human being.
Kevin Spacey -
I am completely half afraid to think.
Flann O'Brien -
My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.
Apolo Ohno
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I'm human, just like anybody else.
Ben Affleck -
I told the guys that the team is going to double- and triple-team Kobe at the end. So he's not going to get the ball. Somebody else is going to have to step and make shots.
Phil Jackson -
Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
Howard Aiken -
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Albert Meltzer -
Presence will minish awe.
Claudius Claudianus
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Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?
Cliff Asness -
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
Major Owens -
Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”
Erik Weihenmayer