The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
#quotes #gene-weingarten #writing

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
#quotes #miley-cyrus #music

I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
#quotes #amy-adams #childhood #luck

Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
#quotes #jane-fonda #sports #running #women

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
#quotes #hannah-arendt #change #choices

Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
#proverbs #karma

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
#proverbs #greek-proverbs #society #trees

I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
#quotes #amy-sedaris #time

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ~Kim Alexis
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
#quotes #lincoln-chafee #meddling #games #sexism

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
#quotes #democritus #writing #poetry #inspiration

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
#quotes #robert-orben #vacation #work

Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
#proverbs #greatness

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
#quotes #don-meyer #basketball #team

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
#quotes #t-s-eliot #education

I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. ~Marc Guggenheim
#quotes #marc-guggenheim #selling

Cyberbullying is an issue that affects all of us and demands that Canadians work together to put an end to it. This national public awareness campaign is an important step in protecting our children online. Along with our government's introduction of Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, we are taking clear action to tackle cyberbullying. ~Peter MacKay
#quotes #peter-mackay #internet

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
#quotes #marie-rutkoski #galileo #time #science #superstition

I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
#quotes #hunter-hayes #competition

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
#quotes #charles-de-secondat #wisdom #success

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
#quotes #ryszard-kapuscinski #patriotism #power #russia #poland