Claud Cockburn Quotes
A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
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But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.
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We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and users themselves.
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I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.
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My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'
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A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.
