Ivan Allen Quotes
The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.
Quotes to Explore
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
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A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
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I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
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There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
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I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
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When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
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Religion and ethics were not always-or even frequently-mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.
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When I was young, I was religious.
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I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
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If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.
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You know it has all the kind of fun stuff. It has the countermeasures - we always talk about the countermeasures because people are like, "What the heck is countermeasures?" You know if I shot a missile at it, flares would pop out of those holes and stop the missile from hitting it.
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The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.
