Oliver North Quotes
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
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I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.
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I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
