Dick Thornburgh Quotes
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside-to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.