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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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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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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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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I've got friends in bands who seem like they're always on tour, even still. It may be in some people's blood. I'm sure some bands do it just to earn a living or for the experience.
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I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.
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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
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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.
