Major Owens Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing.
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I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit a story, week to week, push things in a different way than you can in a film, and you are able to go deeper, simply because you have more time. I'm just excited to do that. It's always good to do new things.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
