Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman (H. R. Haldeman) Quotes
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.
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The Copts - the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse than infidels, and your Crusaders massacred them joyfully.
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
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I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
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The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
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Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
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This industry's hard. The world is hard. Being young and black is tough.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
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A great deal more is known than has been proved.
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You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.
