George Rogers Clark Quotes
Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
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People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
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Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.
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Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.
