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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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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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 haven't had many injuries, and I know that's because I take care of my body, and I do the things that I need to do to keep it strong.
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The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
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In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.
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From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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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.
