John Podhoretz Quotes
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
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Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.
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Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
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There are uncertain truths - even true statements that we may take to be false - but there are no uncertain certainties. Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty; but it is well worth searching for truth; and we do this chiefly by searching for mistakes, so that we have to correct them.
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I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.
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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.
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Living together is an art.
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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
