Curtis LeMay Quotes
If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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I actually hate shopping.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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Ed Balls
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KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.
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Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.
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If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
