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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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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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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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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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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I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
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But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?
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Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.
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Sometimes you're playing two or three times a week.
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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.
