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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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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If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.
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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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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.
