Martin Niemoller Quotes
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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The devil made me do it.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
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For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.
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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
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I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
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‘Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.’
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One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.
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Lance Armstrong: How bad do you want to win a stage in the Tour de France?
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One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.
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Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
