Dan Coats Quotes
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
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He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
