Caspar Weinberger (Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger) Quotes
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
Quotes to Explore
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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Back in the day, I had this fluoro pink hoodie that I thought was the coolest thing ever. Left it at a party and never saw it again. Probably the best thing that could have happened.
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You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.
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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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it’s difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time. Re-igniting
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
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We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
