John Podhoretz Quotes
The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
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I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
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I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them
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The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
