John Charles Polanyi Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.
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People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".
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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
