Jesse Helms Quotes
It is interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize won't be awarded this year. When one recalls that Martin Luther King got the prize last year, it may be just as well that the committee decided not to award one this year. Perhaps it was too difficult to choose between Stokely Carmichael and Ho Chi Minh.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.
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For working-class families and small businesses... we have got to find ways to lower energy costs.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
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It is interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize won't be awarded this year. When one recalls that Martin Luther King got the prize last year, it may be just as well that the committee decided not to award one this year. Perhaps it was too difficult to choose between Stokely Carmichael and Ho Chi Minh.
