Ted Koppel Quotes
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
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When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.
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Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection.. .My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
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My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.
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There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.
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I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.
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Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.
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Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.
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I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done.
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The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.
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Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
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The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
