Darrell Huff Quotes
A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!
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Our directives must be reassessed.
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I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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We have to provide a roadmap for the Abuja peace process.
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But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
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Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
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You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
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Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.
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When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely felt indignant that people should tell such lies. In the first case I saw corpses, in the second only words. . . I gradually acquired a certain horror of the way in which my own mind worked. It was clear to me that unless I cared about every murdered child impartially, I did not really care about children being murdered at all.
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A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.
