Ben Harney Quotes
When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
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When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.
