Vernon A. Walters Quotes
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
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As a country, we have confronted and controlled the most common sources of ozone precursors, and our options are few and far between to handle what remains, which is mostly naturally occurring ozone and ozone transported from other countries such as Mexico.
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After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.
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My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
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I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.
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We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.
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Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
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It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find a church and know the services and feel at home there.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.
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America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
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Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
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The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
