John Foster Dulles Quotes
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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From a societal aspect, when you are impatient behind a driverless car and there's no one to listen to your beeping horn, what are people going to do? How are they going to take out their aggression?
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People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
