Charles Orville Whitley Quotes
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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President Trump should tell the Senate, 'No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved them.' Foreign policy is made in the White House, not on the Senate floor.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
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A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.
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I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.
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You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
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I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
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The Hulk has an awesome superpower. He turns into this giant monster that can eliminate several dudes at once.
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I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.
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Betrayal, in all forms, is painful. It can make you go crazy. But we all have choices on how to deal with it. Do we just go away or stay?
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I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.
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Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.
