Walter Wriston Quotes
The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
Quotes to Explore
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.
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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.
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The opposite of freedom is not determinism, but hardness of heart. Freedom presupposes openness of heart, of mind, of eye and ear.
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I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.
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The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
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'Paranoia' was pretty awesome because it was the cast of 'Air Force One,' Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford back together, pitted against each other again, so that was pretty neat.
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The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
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In 2013, I had the chance to try cross-country skiing on snow and just fell in love with being in nature and how hard it was to pick up the sport. And the snow is sparkly.
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You must play boldly to win.
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A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
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The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
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Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.
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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
