David M. Shoup Quotes
I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
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For a long time, we got no respect. People thought we just got lucky. They said we were a one-record wonder.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.
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Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.
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I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.
