Christopher Dodd Quotes
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
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Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.
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If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
