Quotes about american-author
american-author failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Sandra Cisneros
american-author immediate knowledge pays price pursuing ugly
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. James A. Baldwin
american-author grow
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. Leo Buscaglia
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin
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ESPN has said that they fired me without having been told to do so by Disney, and I actually believe that. I think they did it on their own. Gregg Easterbrook
american-author billion investors
Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. Daniel Yergin
american-author american-educator begins conscious education examine paradox precisely society
The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James Baldwin
american-author empowered men women
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. John Gray
american-author critical generally offers sound tries
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
american-author blame easy equal feelings fulfilled men needs women
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.
american-author applying forgetting hearing learning requires
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
american-author commodity exchange fact itself
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
american-author capitalist necessary peculiar phenomenon prices resulting
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
american-author both city further looks tom unlikely
Tom and I are never in the same city long enough and both between books, so a further collaboration looks unlikely for some time.
american-author becomes branches capital capitalist competition equal investment point rate starting
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.
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As to that sensitive child out there, I know they exist, but maybe a good dose of the truth would be a warning for what's waiting. Robert Cormier
american-author conference people rather treating
As I said at the BYU conference some years back, we make aliens out of people by treating them as alien, rather than recognizing similarities. Elizabeth Moon
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Conceivably, we could be witnessing the start of a break from the era of US-led globalization in which Washington preached unfettered trade to the rest of the world. William Greider
american-author appears
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off. Steven Brust
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.
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Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.
american-author deals family follows
What I write deals with relationships, with making families. It just follows that I would often write about family and what it means.
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You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. Richard Grant
american-author creating ethanol five four gasoline might percent within
Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia.
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When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market's loaded... you don't know which one to take. Mickey Spillane
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There's going to be a trailer in the theater like this coming summer, and it is just going to be a black screen, and all you will hear is that music. Kevin Williamson
american-author anywhere crazy help short since stories
There's no sense going crazy over this stuff. Short stories help me with that, since you can do a story in anywhere from one day to a week. Robert Sheckley
american-author bill
There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.
american-author reason stories time
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
american-author gains loses man profit
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Robert Fulghum
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau