Hal Duncan Quotes
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
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Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.
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The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.
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Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.
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The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
