H. R. McMaster Quotes
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.
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I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
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You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.
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If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
