Connie Mack IV Quotes
As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.
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Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.
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As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.
