Ernie Fletcher Quotes
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
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Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
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Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
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Leadership is a highly personal, individual matter. Each leader must establish his own approach based on an internal compass using a method geared to his personality, his capabilities but always oriented towards accomplishing the mission while knowing and taking care of his men.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
