Barry W. Lynn Quotes
Let's keep this simple: We separate religion and government in this country. That means the state has no business setting aside special days for prayer or other religious observances. Thomas Jefferson knew that. He refused to issue prayer proclamations during his presidency. James Madison issued a few under pressure from Congress but later in his life wrote an essay saying he wished he hadn't. Andrew Jackson followed Jefferson's lead and refused to issue such proclamations entirely.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.
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I don't write for any particular kind of person.
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The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.
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Ordinary people can bring about change.
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Let's keep this simple: We separate religion and government in this country. That means the state has no business setting aside special days for prayer or other religious observances. Thomas Jefferson knew that. He refused to issue prayer proclamations during his presidency. James Madison issued a few under pressure from Congress but later in his life wrote an essay saying he wished he hadn't. Andrew Jackson followed Jefferson's lead and refused to issue such proclamations entirely.
