Craig Biggio Quotes
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
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After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing and I had done another. And so?
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One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who could be - he was a love poet, he was a poet of the natural order and he was also a political poet.
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Overall everyone swung the bats and did everything right