Abigail Adams Quotes
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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You know, when your poisoning your body night after night after night, you end up chipping a couple years off your life. I've always wanted to be able to do this and now that I am, it's hard to complain.
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There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.
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People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
