Charlie McCreevy Quotes
With the broad consensus reached on key aspects of this proposal the European Parliament has provided us with a solid basis for going forward."
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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We had a close-knit family. That's one reason I was probably more shocked than anybody that someone in my family was on drugs.
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I wanted them to beat Laurel Highlands' score, and we did. I want them thinking Albert Gallatin is coming for them.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.
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He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
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We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.
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Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.
