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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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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There's something particular about the way Los Angeles feels in the summertime. It slows down and is hazy and dreamy, and you can put on certain music and go for a drive and be totally sober but feel stoned.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'
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Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and restaurant experiences are quite unsatisfactory on the social level. What young people need is a place that has the feel of an unhosted party where they find themselves interacting with like-minded strangers.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
