Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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I love my sleep.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
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There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
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Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.
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The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.
