Chen Shui-bian Quotes
I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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I like working on my birthday, so I always do.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Don Diègue: Rodrigue, as-tu du coeur?Don Rodrigue: Tout autre que mon pèreL’éprouverait sur l’heure.
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He thinks the world of our team. He thinks we've got heart and fight.
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Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.
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I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
