Alcee Hastings Quotes
Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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Fashion is one big family.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
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When the family dies, the nation follows.
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You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
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Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.
