Claude Maxwell MacDonald Quotes
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.
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It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
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We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.
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Every day, the hard-working men and women of Alabama's Department of Environmental Management are on the ground, protecting Alabama's rivers and lakes in a way that is beneficial to all. EPA should support them in that work, not make it more difficult.
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If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
