Alben W. Barkley Quotes
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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Danny was the No. 1 Doors fan of the world. I told him no one loved Jim as much as he did.
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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
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I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.
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I tried it a few times but didn't see the point. I'm Zach Braff. What the fudge do I need a team for besides holding me back and sucking? If I wanted that, I'd just walk on the set of 'Scrubs'.
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The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
