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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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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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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Sadly, there is a fine line between patriotism and paranoia.
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Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.
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Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.
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When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
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I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
