Vaclav Smil Quotes
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.
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Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
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I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.
