Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
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Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
