Alison Croggon Quotes
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.
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Almost one in three Americans has had some contact with the criminal justice system. When you reach that saturation point, people begin to understand, in a very visceral way, the difficulties of reentry.
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In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.
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I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.
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I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.
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I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.
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I've won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don't know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.
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While the heart beats, hope lingers.
