Richard M. Nixon Quotes
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
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I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
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It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism.
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I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.
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"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
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I judge people based on merit, on personality.
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There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
