Oliver North Quotes
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I don't get along much with myself.
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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
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I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
