Gabrielle Giffords Quotes
Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
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Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
