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My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.
We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly less abroad than is owned from abroad here.
I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
Every region in the world faces challenges - and Africa is hugely diverse, so its own challenges are varied.
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.
Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.
When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
When I started my own podcast, I realized I definitely wanted to do characters.
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?
But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception of their own success.
I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes.
I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
A lot of U.S. businesses are really going into the agenda of sustainability, and some are making their own commitments in emissions reductions in their own operations.
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.
In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
Each person has their own unique air or aura, and I can only describe Park Bo Young's aura as just hearts.
I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
Philanthropists decide how to spend their money based on their own personal whims, rather than what is best for the social good.
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.
Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
I always ask the question: As more Africans are going online, are they finding content that is meaningful and relevant to them, or are they just consuming from everywhere else. As Africans, we have the capacity to generate our own content.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.
Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.
We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
I actually think that I'm a genius; not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think I'm a musical genius.
I have my own foundation, Nyle DiMarco Foundation, and it focuses on bettering deaf youths' lives.
Every team and club has its own personal goals and objectives, and I'm only concerned about mine.
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.
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