John Ashcroft Quotes
The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
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It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.
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I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
