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 love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
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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.
Charles B. Rangel
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One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
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There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names - calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.
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Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.
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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
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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.
