Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
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After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.
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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
