Charles Ruff Quotes
Having admitted that he did wrong, there's still the critical question, 'Do we want to launch the single most serious constitutional process that our system contemplates?' And the answer to that, in my view, is no.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.'
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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.
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Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.
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I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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Having admitted that he did wrong, there's still the critical question, 'Do we want to launch the single most serious constitutional process that our system contemplates?' And the answer to that, in my view, is no.
