Rich Lowry Quotes
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
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I feel I have lived during one of the best eras of racing there ever was. From Rudolph, Wis., to Daytona, it has increased 1,000-fold. When I first started racing you were looked down upon. Now, you're a celebrity and I'm not just talking about myself. Even if racing hadn't gotten so popular, I would still have done it.
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
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From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
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I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.
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I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
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It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
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Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
