Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
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Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
