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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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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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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Domestically, a lot of people think Xi Jinping is becoming Mao Zedong. By giving Hong Kong democracy, people would look at them as enlightened leaders.
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There's absolutely no boundaries in dressing for any size, ever.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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I love decompressing with friends. Sometimes when a tour is long, I'll fly friends over for the last part of the tour. I love to bring family with me, and spending time with them and my family is really the way to decompress.
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I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
