Patrick Leahy Quotes
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.
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I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
