Schlachter 2000 Quotes & Sayings

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal. — James Cook

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma. — Wendell Berry

Afghanistan doesn't have the oil of the Khazars, he said, and we're not ready to prostitute our women like the Thais. Unlike the Westerner's, ours is not a spiritual poverty but a material one. When our needs in that area are met, we will not have the dilemma or crisis of Western man. — Zia Haider Rahman

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two. — Andy Goldsworthy

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. — Newt Gingrich

As a father, we need to actively listen. — Asa Don Brown

Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support. — Tom Hooper

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. — Herman Kahn

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living — Sandra Brown

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. — Twyla Tharp

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know? — Ethan Coen

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. — John Cusack