Charlie McCreevy Quotes
When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
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Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
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Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
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I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.
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When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.
