Walter Millis Quotes
The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.
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Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.
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The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.
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I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.
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Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. ... The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, 'We're not perfect, but they're nuts.'
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The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.
