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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She’d decided she’d try to stick it out until halftime when she saw a face that made her scream and jump off the sofa.
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Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. When people need help they pray a lot. But after they get what they want, they slow down. If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
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We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
