Doug Flutie Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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A guy that's undersized has to prove himself right away.
