Charles Edward Merriam Quotes
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn -
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman -
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
Patricia Arquette -
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
Wally Schirra -
Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
C. Robert Kehler
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
Malik Bendjelloul -
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
Dana Spiotta -
I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
Val Kilmer -
Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
Vijay Mallya -
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner -
I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
Candice Swanepoel -
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
T. Boone Pickens -
Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'.
Caitlyn Jenner -
'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'
Malcolm Bradbury
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I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity.
Ben Carson -
People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
Chuck Klosterman -
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson -
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
Ursula K. Le Guin -
This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
p. 162-3 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
Charles Edward Merriam