Sargent Shriver Quotes
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together – so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.
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I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters.
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What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
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I understand that it's the thought that counts, but receiving money is so great, so if you're in a position to give an employee a bonus, just do that.
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My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
