Peter DeFazio Quotes
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.
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I always have a cigar when I catch a fish.
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we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
