Bob Schieffer Quotes
But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
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I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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Strike hard and fast and do not separate.
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But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
