Bill Bonner Quotes
Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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No action is without its side effects.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I wanted to do and the songs that my parents wanted me to do. You would see me cover every Adele, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Then I'd have to do 'Sweet Child O' Mine' and 'Crazy Train,' and it was a really weird combination.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
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I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.
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I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
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All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
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This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
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I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it.
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Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
