Bryce Dallas Howard Quotes
I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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I will either be famous or infamous.
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I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
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In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
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I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
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The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.
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I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.
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I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.
