Joe Barton Quotes
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
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God shapes the world by prayer.
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Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite...to the attainment of the ends of such power.
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At best Americans give but limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.
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Wonders will never cease.
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There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.
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I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.
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Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.
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I've been lucky to have lots and lots of mentors. I think that is incredibly important in anyone's life to encourage and inspire them, let them understand that their own potential is a reality that they can strive for.
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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
