Cindy McCain Quotes
Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
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Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.
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With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the 'dangers' of windmills.
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I am not afraid to cross the party line. I never have been.
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Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.
