Jim Bolger Quotes
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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To survive is to win.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.
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Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
