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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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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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
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Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
