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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I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
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In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There are very few people who could be imprisoned, kept away from their family and loved ones, and exit that same prison with such a powerful spirit of love and a desire for reconciliation.
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In any of the arts, you never stop learning.
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The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.
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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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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.
