David Batstone Quotes
When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.
Quotes to Explore
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
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Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.
