Charles Ranlett Flint Quotes
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
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I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
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I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
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One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
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Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do itYou play the guitar on the MTV.That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.Money for nothin' and chicks for free.Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do itLemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb.Maybe get a blister on your little finger;Maybe get a blister on your thumb.
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If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.
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I don't date girls. I date women.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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I look for characters that speak to something in me.
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Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.
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There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.
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In L.A., I love being with my friends and being able to eat out and wear tank tops at night.
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There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.
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I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.
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In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
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In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
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I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.
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Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
