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.Dick Thornburgh
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
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.
Garth Brooks -
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.
Dambisa Moyo -
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian -
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
Eddy Cue
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood -
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.
Wayne McGregor -
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.
Mahesh Babu -
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.
Zinedine Zidane -
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi -
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields
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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.
Jack McBrayer -
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.
Madhuri Dixit -
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
Larry Harvey -
There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
Sam Houston -
My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
Karyn Parsons -
We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
Karen Mills
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I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.
Amanda Harlech -
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
Eddie Obeng -
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn -
To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.
Kelly Osbourne -
One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.
Barack Obama -
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.
Dick Thornburgh