William J. H. Boetcker Quotes
Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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I see not the shadow of a reason to conclude that their the sexes' virtues should differ in respect to their nature. In fact, how can they, if virtue has only one eternal standard? I must therefore, if I reason consequentially, as strenuously maintain that they must have the same simple direction as that there is a God.
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Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.
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Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.
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Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
