Byron Dorgan Quotes
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow.
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When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
