Jonathan Swift Quotes
Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
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Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.
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Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
