Brent Scowcroft Quotes
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
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Do all things with love.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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Music is to give, share.
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America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
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I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
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We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.
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Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.
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I like women, I never run them down as somehow inferior to men, and I have a contempt for men who do. And I think, for one thing, that women are just as principled as men-but they sure as hell aren’t the same kind of principles.
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'Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.'
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The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
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I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier.
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I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
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Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
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Twenty-four pulleys, one hundred counterweights / two lenses, dark shadows...
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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
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But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
