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Desmond Tutu Quotes

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: leader
Nationality: south african
Birth: October 7, 1931

Topics

Evil Human Extraordinary Human Beings

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

Business People Succeed Better Try

My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate my bravado. I haven't been on the front lines. I haven't ever stepped on a land mine.

People Tolerance Want Land High

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

Think Will Always Whatever Away Get

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Jayne Ann Krentz

World Negative Philosophy Sociology

Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.

People Think You Way Big Something

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

Star Arts Film Martial Arts Wanted

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Nature Tree Forest Down Affect Even

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

Great Day People Survive Find Will

Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Roads Mind Bridges Congress Now

Suddenly, everyone wanted to talk to me, it seemed. And not about my poetry: it was my dyslexia they were most interested in.

Poetry Me Talk Everyone Interested

What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

Trying Satisfaction Achieve Personal

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

People Rich American Environment You

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