Don Kardong Quotes
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.
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I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley.
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When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
