Lincoln Chafee Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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I'd like to see a world where there are so many Latina women leaders - and women of all different backgrounds - in the top jobs around the country. When that happens, we've succeeded.
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Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
