Rand Paul Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.
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We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
