David Lilienthal Quotes
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.
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All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - 'Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'
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Reason is lost reasoning.
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Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.
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I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.
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There are so many great singers out there.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me.
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Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.
