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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them.
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Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ...
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Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.
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If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
