Emile Gaboriau Quotes
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
