Newt Gingrich Quotes
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I don't like possessions.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.
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A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
