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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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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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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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.
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Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different and often strike out against them in ignorance. But society is really starting to wise up at last as more enlightened generations emerge.
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.
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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.
