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 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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We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.
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Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.
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Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
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In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.
