Cynthia Kenyon Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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If you are really challenged, and if you are willing to take the plunge, very often some of the path opens up in front of you.
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There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
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Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
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I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
