Dante Alighieri Quotes
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
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Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
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The experience of this sweet life.
