John Bolton Quotes
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'
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If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
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In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
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When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is something that all women know from a young age.
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I don't know what my future is.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
