Harlan Stone Quotes
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
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Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
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People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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If I didn't love it, I would not record it.
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The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
