Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
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I refute it thus.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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I sing a lot about love.
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When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.
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It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.
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I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.
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A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.
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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
