John Bolton Quotes
I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.
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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
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I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations.
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We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
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Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
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All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
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You are what you're portrayed as.
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That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.
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Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
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At the end of every year, I always get a blood test to see what's on the inside of my body. You've got to see what you put into your body, not just care about the outside of your body - make sure you get in all the supplements and all the protein and all the carbs and the low cholesterol.
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What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
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I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.
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If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.
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It's very hard to write humor.
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My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.
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I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.
