Bart Yates (Noah Bly) Quotes
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.
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My favorite thing about Los Angeles is there are businesses that you can call, and they will deliver groceries to your house.
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If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.
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Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.
