Conrad Aiken Quotes
Something had changed-but it was not the street-The street was just the same-it was himself.
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
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I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.
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I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
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Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.
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I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
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British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
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Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.
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You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.
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Jesus, take the wheel.
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That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.
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I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.
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If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
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Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
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Something had changed-but it was not the street-The street was just the same-it was himself.
