Donald L. Carcieri Quotes
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.
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I grow stronger with every moment. I will be wild. I will be brutal. I will encircle you and conquer you. I will be more powerful than your boats and your swords and your blood lust. I will be inevitable.
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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
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Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.
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I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.
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We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
