Georg Hermes Quotes
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empowerment must not only be connected to the job that you do.
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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
