Pat Oliphant Quotes
One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
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You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
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I grew up rock climbing.
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One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
