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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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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This is the way of long and empty roads: nearly forgotten things surface and singing voices improve.
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Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
