David Boaz Quotes
Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.
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But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.
