T.R. Reid Quotes
The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Being evil is easy.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I got a big mouth.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.
