Kjell Magne Bondevik Quotes
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I don't interest myself that much.
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I was a disinterested student.
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Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
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Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.
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You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.
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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
