Walter Wriston Quotes
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms.
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A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.
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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
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A country does not go bankrupt.
