J. Irwin Miller Quotes
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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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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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.
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Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.
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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
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If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?
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The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.
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We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
