Richard Parks Bland Quotes
The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.
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I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...
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I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
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My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.
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I want to marry and have kids. The things we all want.
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My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
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Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.
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It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.
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He Obama lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country! The phoney sic electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!
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The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country's commitment to mutual defense and security, and promotes regional peace and stability.
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Celebrities say the darnedest things.
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The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.
