George Allen Quotes
Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.
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Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.
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When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible.
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How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.
