Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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I was involved in the anti-war movement.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
