Alexander Stubb Quotes
Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
Quotes to Explore
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.
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A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’ until you relate it to the body. The body is a component in design just as air and space are. Like line, form, and color, the body is a material to work with. It is one of the basic inspirations in creating form.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
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Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
