Bert Lance Quotes
I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.
