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'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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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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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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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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The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.
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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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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
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In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
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It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!
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He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
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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.
