Dick Thornburgh Quotes
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I like things simple.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
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It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
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Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.
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I don't think I resemble a superhero at all, really. I don't think people would really imagine me to be a superhero. I certainly don't have the physique for it, and I'm not tall enough, etc.
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I'm one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.
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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
