Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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FoodDayPeopleGivingEnvironment

I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.

Jerry Heller

TellGhostUsedKidsStoriesScare

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

Mayte Garcia

LifeLiveLive LifeCelebrateWant

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

John Krasinski

ReadingPlayBartenderFiredBeing

Now I'm at the point where I can bring the cursor just about anywhere.

Matt Nagle

I CanNowPointBringWhereJust

If I make the mistake of eating breakfast, I want to go back to bed and/or eat again immediately.

Stephen J. Dubner

MistakeBreakfastEatingBackWant

I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can't force them to think that way.

Rosa Parks

ChangePeopleThinkWayRaceHuman

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Mike Fitzpatrick

FreedomHistoryPatriotismPrideOur

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

Mikaela Shiffrin

WinningOne ThingOlympicMedal

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

Lucille Bliss

CharacterYourselfYouLoseWant

Every time you jump to another format in the 'picture business,' meaning film, television, commercials, the people in the other format go, 'Ah, yeah, you made a lot of features, but you don't know how to do TV' or the commercial people go, 'Oh, you can't do 30 seconds.'

Jay Chandrasekhar

BusinessTimePeoplePictureMeaning

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

Donald Sutherland

GovernmentMeRichProblemEnough

I just wondered how things were put together.

Claude Shannon

TogetherThingsJustHowWerePut

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