Oliver North Quotes
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
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I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.
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I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.
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We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
