Doug Parker Quotes
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
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We are exceptionally pleased about where we are right now.