Herodotus Quotes

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

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• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  

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• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

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• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

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• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

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• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

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• I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

  

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• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  

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• I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.

  

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• As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.

  

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• I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

  

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• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

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• I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

  

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• It's time to close Gitmo.

  

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• We are facing someone Iran who has an army, money, and a political plan for the Arab Islamic Middle East.

  

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• Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

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• In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

  

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• The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

  

  Ted Turner
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• As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.

  

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• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

  

  John F. Kennedy
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• We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

  

  Herodotus
  • Poverty
  • Gods
  • Island