David B. Rivkin Quotes

In our constitutional system, the extent of political controversies, including the protests, surrounding a given issue is utterly unrelated to the analysis of legality and should have no effect on any court.

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• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

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• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

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• I'm a really bad liar.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  

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• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
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• How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

  

  Victor Ponta
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• Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

  

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• Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

  

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• The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

  

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• I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

  

  Valeria Golino
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• There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.

  

  Candice Accola
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• I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• I have no television - I hate it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
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• It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.

  

  Karen Bender
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• It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
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• Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

  

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• Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

  

  Jeff Smith
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• While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

  

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• We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

  

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• I do business in 170 countries; none of them is perfect. There is not even one country that I think of, and I am like, 'God, that did everything that I wanted it to do.'

  

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• Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

  

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• In our constitutional system, the extent of political controversies, including the protests, surrounding a given issue is utterly unrelated to the analysis of legality and should have no effect on any court.

  

  David B. Rivkin
  • Political
  • Should
  • Analysis