Tom Ridge Quotes
We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.
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Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
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Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
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Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.
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We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
