Harrison Ford Quotes
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
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If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.
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The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
