August Bier Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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To do something good, it has to scare you.
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The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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I never say of an operation that it is without danger.
