John Delaney Quotes
With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.
Quotes to Explore
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I'm pretty boring.
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It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
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I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken!Aid where tears of virtue flow;Faith to keep each promise spoken!Truth alike to friend and foe!
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With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.
