Oliver North Quotes
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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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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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
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I need a woman who is secure and loves herself first. Then she can share that love and light with me.
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You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
