Bennie Thompson Quotes
Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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I have matured a lot.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
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John Parsons: What about the women who want babies now and in 10 years won’t be able to have babies? Rather impractical don’t you think?
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The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.
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When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.
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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
