Barry Goldwater Quotes
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Quotes to Explore
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.
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You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
