Dick Pound Quotes
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In America, public opinion is the leader.
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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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America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
