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What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

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• I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

  

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• The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

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• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

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• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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• I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.

  

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• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

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• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

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• At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

  

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• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

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• People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

  

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• It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.

  

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• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

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• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

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• The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

  

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• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

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• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

  

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• It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

  

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• You can't take good health for granted.

  

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• When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it's a great opportunity to say, 'Hey, this is really good, but we can do it even better.'

  

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• It was a very different Republican Party in 2013. And so I think particularly the House Republicans are more confrontational, less willing to compromise even than the Republican class of '94.

  

  Stuart Rothenberg
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• I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

  

  Kym Whitley
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• What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?

  

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