Bob McDonnell Quotes
The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.
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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
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Even three times a day to offerThree hundred cooking pots of foodDoes not match a portion of the meritIn one instant of love.
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.
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Within the context of life, I am the centrist pragmatist who doesn't even vote; within the context of sports, I am a potential war criminal.
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What I love about elk hunting is its similarities to turkey hunting. When you call to a bull elk, and it comes in ripping things apart and sounding like a herd of buffalo coming at you, it's exciting!
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So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.
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We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.
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The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.
