Lincoln Steffens Quotes
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
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My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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I try to share a lot of my life on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, everything. I really like interacting with fans on Twitter and answering their questions and just getting to know them because it's cool for them to have people who are connecting with my music reach out and show interest.
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You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
