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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One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Marvel and Netflix have proven they know what they're doing.
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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.
