Cal Thomas Quotes
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
