Allen West Quotes
I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.
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Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
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I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.
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The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.
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I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.
