Dick Pound Quotes
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
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After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
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I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
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I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once claimed it to be. The theory is not just conceptually coherent; there are adaptations out there in nature (like reduced virulence in some viruses) that evolved because there was group selection.
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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
