Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong,Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong.And when for once the wide world begins to praise her nameHer own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame.
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There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.
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Tupac was a person who was all about love. I feel like that's me, too; that's who I've always been.
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I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.
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It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.
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Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.
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So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?
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It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.
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Protecting consumers goes beyond just fighting illicit schemes. It also involves making sure that they get what they pay for. Unfortunately, rural telephone customers aren't always assured of that.
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I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.
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Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.
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I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.
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A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
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When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
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We need a robust but targeted military approach. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no war-monger. I opposed the Iraq war and worked for a decade as an Oxfam aid worker – but this isn’t Iraq. This is a humanitarian crisis.
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My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.
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Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.
