Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
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A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
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Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
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Remember this... People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.
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The chief of staff says I'm the guy.
