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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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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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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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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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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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.
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If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.
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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
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Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.
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I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
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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.
