Charles C. Mann Quotes
The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
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When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.
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I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.
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It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.
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The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.
