William Paterson Quotes
Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.|
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To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
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I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.
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Determination that just won't quit - that's what it takes.
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I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti was a citizen of the world. He was very eclectic. He sang with Sting and with a lot of other pop artists, and this open-mindedness, for me, is very important.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the top rate then in 1913, was 7 percent. Woodrow Wilson had a big ceremony and said, "I'm delighted to be president at the creation of this popular new tax."
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
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Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.
