Edgar Snow Quotes
I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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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 am very much a Republican.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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Those who go along get along.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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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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I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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If I wasn't a fighter, I wouldn't be unique.
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I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.
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My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.
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But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness.
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While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
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His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground
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I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.
