Donald G. Mitchell Quotes
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
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I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think it's cool. I have a lot of fun.
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
