Frances Beinecke Quotes
NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
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That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
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In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
