Kenneth Baker Quotes
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.
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The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.
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When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.
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The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
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Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
