Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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In the subconscious fantasies that make conception look so alluring, it is often ourselves that we would like to see live forever, not someone with a personality of his own.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
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For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.
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The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
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I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.
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But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.
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Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why.
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When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
