John B. Larson Quotes
As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Music is a tool that brings people together.
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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
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We are today engaged in a war. It is an economic war over our sovereignty as human beings with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The “pursuit of happiness” means the right to create wealth through our labor and to enjoy the fruits thereof. The battle now is over who has the moral, the ethical, and the legal right to the fruits of our labor. Are we to be free, or are we to be slaves? Just whose money is it anyway?
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If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.
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As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.
