Derrick Grayson Quotes
The erosion of personal freedom and liberty as a result of federal policy and legislation is alarming.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
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In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
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You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The erosion of personal freedom and liberty as a result of federal policy and legislation is alarming.
