Bill Owens Quotes
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.
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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
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Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.
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This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions - never.
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If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
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People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.
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The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.
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I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.
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The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
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I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one.
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There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.
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I want to dig in before I finish with a career here in Congress - be known as someone who was a really serious legislator, who had really good ideas and was willing to work across the aisle to get broad consensus to solve some of these problems the country is facing.
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White girls tell me Hey Nicki your camp rules! Is that why you get more head than shampoos?
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At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.
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It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.
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If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
