Daniel Ortega Quotes
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
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As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.
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Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
