Bob McDonnell Quotes
People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
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Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.
