Winona LaDuke Quotes

If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

Winona LaDuke

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I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

Andrew Shue

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To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Maya Lin

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I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

Meg Tilly

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Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.

Mekhi Phifer

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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

Michael Hayden

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The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Steven Rattner

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I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

Tom Brokaw

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It's really difficult to maintain a credible career as you jump from age group to age group and suddenly you're not the flavor of the month anymore; you're not in demand.

Robby Benson

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I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

Robin Williams

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In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.

Robert Zubrin

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Life is warfare.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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