John Boehner Quotes
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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Cricket is my first love.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
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Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to resolve the tension between their split identities.
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I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, it would be Christmas everyday.