Pat Buckley Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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There will be many which will increase in their destruction.
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According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?
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When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.
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The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
