Charles Fletcher Dole Quotes
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
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Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
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I have a very haute couture way of working.
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I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.
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And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
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Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.
