John Bolton Quotes
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
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I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence.
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I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.