Patrick Leahy Quotes
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.
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Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough with the issues to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
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A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
