Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
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You are what you love, not who loves you.
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True honor is attained by teaching our minds to recognize truth, and training our hearts to love it.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
