Dick Thornburgh Quotes
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
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Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.
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If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
