Sargent Shriver Quotes
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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...since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
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So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.
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The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
