Margaret Heffernan Quotes
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.
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Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
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The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
