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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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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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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I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.
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I am not old, - I cannot be old, Though threescore years and ten Have wasted away, like a tale that is told, The lives of other men: I am not old ; though friends and foes Alike have gone to their graves, And left me alone to my joys or my woes, As a rock in the midst of the waves.
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Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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I tend to hold on to injuries a lot longer than others.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
