Elinor Ostrom Quotes
Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.
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Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.
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Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels.
