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All Quotes Collection
"I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America."
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"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."
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"As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying."
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"The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time."
38
"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself."
27
"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us."
66
"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
54
"The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down."
56
"The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good."
47
"The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher."
49
"Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over."
46
"You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one."
42
"Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days."
46
"I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general."
54
"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world."
33
"So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years."
37
"There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe."
37
"America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy."
32
"Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area."
39
"I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world."
33
"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more."
34
"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
34
"We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing."
31
"You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible."
30
"We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food."
31
"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."
34
"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country."
35
"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."
41
"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class."
39
"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
62
"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
38
"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."
48
"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves."
50
"In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people."
45
"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
Man,
43
"If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down."
55
"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
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