Dick Thornburgh Quotes
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.Dick Thornburgh
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Iris Chang -
Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice -
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 -
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving -
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 -
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Laura Hillenbrand -
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
Uwe Boll -
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields -
I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
Adam DeVine -
But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
J. M. Coetzee -
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
Olivier Theyskens -
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
Vanessa Minnillo -
Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
Carine Roitfeld -
I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.
Natalia Kills
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
Jack Kerouac -
I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
Peter Landesman -
You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.
Brian Tracy -
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
W. H. Auden -
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
Dick Thornburgh