Walter Wriston Quotes
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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I've written poetry most of my life.
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A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.
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I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.
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I wanted to be the best in the world.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
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I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.
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Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
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There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
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I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.
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Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light.
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An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
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Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
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One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.
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Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
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I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'
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It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
