Joshua Waitzkin Quotes

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

Joshua Waitzkin

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Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

Jerry Greenfield

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I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Jennifer Fallon

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When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

Robert Lepage

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To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

Romesh Gunesekera

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Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.

Christopher McCulloch

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I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Arthur Henderson

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Never promise more than you can perform.

Publilius Syrus

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I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Peter MacKay

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To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Peter Singer

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Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

Paul Weyrich

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In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.

Linda Colley

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Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - creating good-paying jobs in this country, making sure our children get a quality education, and ensuring that our families have access to affordable and quality healthcare.

Linda Sanchez

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