William Ruckelshaus Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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I'm curvy.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.
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The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
