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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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 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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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation.
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I think I have great hands out of the backfield.
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Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
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As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript better, people who've made careers out of providing careful, constructive criticism to writers. I'm tremendously grateful to them.
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Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
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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.
