George P. Shultz Quotes
I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.
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Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
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Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.
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We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
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I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.
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I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.
