J. William Fulbright Quotes

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

J. William Fulbright

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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

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• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

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• Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

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• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

  

  Camille Guaty
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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

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• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

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• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
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• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
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• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
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• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
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• Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

  

  Xavier Niel
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• I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
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• Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
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• Classroom teachers can play an active role in instructing children about appropriate conduct online, even where there is no school policy on the issue. By promoting public discussion about their lives on the Internet, teachers and students can work together to share advice and develop 'rules to type by' or similar Internet-minded guidance.

  

  Rachel Simmons
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• Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

  

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• There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.

  

  Eric Shipton
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• The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.

  

  Octavius Winslow
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• There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

  

  J. William Fulbright
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