Charles C. Mann Quotes
Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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I have a lot of nightmares.
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Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.
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Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.
