David Korten Quotes

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

David Korten

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WorldInequalitySeriousQuestion

Arizona has a great workforce in Tucson with companies like Raytheon and Bombardier.

Jim Cantrell

GreatWorkforceArizonaLike

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.

Jim Carroll

FearMistakesPoetryBasketballYou

I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.

McG

WarThinkPictureMeansAppropriate

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

John Moody

HistoryControlFinancialInteresting

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

John Lydon

MusicYouPlayGoUnderstandBeyond

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

Steven Millhauser

MomentRiverMeStoryEndFirst

I really value my days down there in ECW in Philly.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

ValueDownDaysReallyPhilly

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

Romesh Gunesekera

FuturePowerPastPresentYouLike

It doesn't matter who you love or who you want to cheer for; at the end of the match, you are on your feet, you are going crazy, you have lost your voice, and we did our job.

Braun Strowman

LoveJobCrazyFeetVoiceEnd

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

GodReadySometimesPlacesGetJust

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

William Shakespeare

WomanI AmHopelessAlasAm

There's nobody in my family that's in performance or in the business in any way, so it was not something that was encouraged as a profession. It was more just encouraged as a personality trait.

Ty Burrell

FamilyBusinessPersonalityNobody

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