Adrian Cronauer Quotes
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.
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The way Aventura became successful was so weird. We didn't have a major label. They say everything has a reason, but it's not easy to find. The only thing that was right was the music.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.
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Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
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The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
