Alfred Austin Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
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Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.
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Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions. We did not change it in the sense that we said this has to end, but there was a U.N. vote that transferred the legitimacy of China from Taiwan to Beijing. Beijing was recognized as the government of all of China. Then, under President Carter, we followed what the U.N. had already done eight years earlier.
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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
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We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
