Richard Lugar Quotes
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
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I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.
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The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
