Walter Karp Quotes
The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.
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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.
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That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.
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If I don't do some sort of exercise in a day, I do get in a terrible mood. That's always been true.
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One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?
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I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.
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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
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Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.
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All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.
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No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.
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The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.
