Marc Veasey Quotes
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Writers are so important.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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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'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
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Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.
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Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
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The first question American college kids asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.
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No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
