Bill Haslam Quotes
If we abandon our values by completely shutting our doors to those who seek the freedom we enjoy or mistreating our neighbors who made it here after enduring unimaginable hardships, the terrorists win.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.
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I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
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If we abandon our values by completely shutting our doors to those who seek the freedom we enjoy or mistreating our neighbors who made it here after enduring unimaginable hardships, the terrorists win.
