Red Adair (Paul Neal "Red" Adair) Quotes
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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From the Asia Pacific to Africa to the Americas, the United States and our armed forces will remain the greatest force for freedom and security and peace that the world has ever known. That is your legacy. That is what we have to protect, and that is what we have to defend.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
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There's no way I'll back down, like a goddamn coward. I can't, how would I look? As a man bowing to his knees? Like the mad cow disease, let somebody lash out at me, and not lash back out at him.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.
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Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.
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The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
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Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
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Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
