Blaine Pardoe Quotes
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.
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One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.
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arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
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Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
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That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.
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By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.
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To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.
