Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

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• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

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• A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

  

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• Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

  

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• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  

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• I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

  

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• When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

  

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• I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.

  

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• I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

  

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• Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

  

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• I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

  

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• Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.

  

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• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  

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• Black and ugly as ever, however I stay Coogi down to the socks, rings and watch filled with Rocks.

  

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• On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.

  

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• I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

  

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• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  

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• My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

  

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• Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

  

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• I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.

  

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• One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.

  

  Adrienne Monnier
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• England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart