Charles Haughey Quotes
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I am a Zionist.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
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He who laughs.....lasts.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.
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If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.
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Deep down I'm a very shallow person.
