Cecil Purdy (Cecil John Seddon Purdy) Quotes
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.
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the old place of the Quoyles, half ruined, isolated, the walls and doors of it pumiced by stony lives of dead generations. The aunt felt a hot pang. Nothing would drive them out a second time.
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Your love is like bad medicine
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If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.
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I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
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I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.
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The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families with very few assets to fall back on. We have come far from the worst moments of the crisis, and the economy continues to improve.
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An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.
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I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.
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Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
