Walter Alexander Raleigh Quotes
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He's done everything for me and I owe him the world.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations.
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We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.
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South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I'm going to go with this pop/soul genre that I'm really loving and have always loved. I hope it does well for me, and I'm really excited about the future!
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The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
