David Packard Quotes
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.
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I just like being on stage and making people happy.
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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
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I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.
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My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I've always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
