Jonathan Powell Quotes
Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
Quincy Jones
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
Gary Allan
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
Gary Hamel
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
Rachel Nichols
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A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
Bart Gordon
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I have very eclectic tastes.
Carly Fiorina
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
Dakota Goyo
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
Garth Brooks
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
Tavi Gevinson
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
Nathan Myhrvold
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I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.
D. J. Cotrona
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
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I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
Campbell Scott
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
Carla Hall
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I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
Lamar Alexander
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Voting third-party in 2016 meant choosing The Green Party's Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, or Independent Candidate Evan McMullion.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.
Peter Milligan
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I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.
Alex Gibney
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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
George Will
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
James Bovard
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Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.
Jonathan Powell