Conrad Black Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'
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I'm standing up for the American people.
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I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
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The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
