Wesley Pruden Quotes
The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
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My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
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I am very proud to say that America is my home! I have so much respect for this country and the people in it. I'm so grateful that you guys have taken me in with care and respect.
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To the world, you are America.
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The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.
