Jeffrey Archer Quotes
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
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I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
