Major Owens Quotes
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
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I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.
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You've got to be brave.
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But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
