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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
- Barry McCaffrey
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#End Of The Day
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Popular Posts
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There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.
- Jane Goodall
#Discipline
#Good
#Important
#Mother
#She
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#Arrived
#Chaos
#Intellectual
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
- Rand Paul
#Desire
#Heart
#Life
#Long
#Remember
You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
- Rand Paul
#Consequences
#Injustice
#Without
#You
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
- John Bolton
#Believe
#Foreign Policy
#Policy
#Sticker
You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.
- Jon Krakauer
#Butt
#Kick
#Lawyer
#New
#Play
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
- Jon Krakauer
#Form
#Media
#Nature
#Short
Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.
- Jon Krakauer
#Impact
#Just
#Moon
#People
#Space
You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.
- Woody Harrelson
#Bad
#Capable
#Cheers
#Forever
#Know
Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.
- Woody Harrelson
#Almost
#Aphrodisiac
#Me
#Violence
Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
- Dennis Weaver
#Consciousness
#Mass
#Responsibility
Business must be the solution, not the problem.
- Dennis Weaver
#Business
#Must
#Problem
#Solution
I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
- Glennon Doyle Melton
#Ball
#Colorful
#Contradictions
#Nothing
My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
- Jesse Ventura
#Family
#Father
#Know
#Me
#Money
Mankind advances only through struggle.
- Gustav Stresemann
#Mankind
#Only
#Struggle
#Through
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
- Gustav Stresemann
#Context
#Heritage
#Only
#Within
#Would
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.
- Gustav Stresemann
#Encounter
#Must
#Solidarity
#Time
#Two
Human life is beyond comprehension.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Beyond
#Human Life
#Human
#Life
We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan for us to follow. But when it came to each scene, we and the gagmen would work out ideas.
- Stan Laurel
#Follow
#Ideas
#Story
#Us
#Work
It's the one with that panel of ultra-chichi folks. The one called 'What's My Line?' It sends me straight up the wall. I call it 'The Snob Family.'
- Stan Laurel
#Call
#Family
#Line
#Me
#Up
I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.
- Stan Laurel
#Charles
#Deserve
#Mentioned
#Same
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect. I couldn't hardly cheat myself.
- Roy Orbison
#Artist
#Deep
#Myself
#Respect
#Treat
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
- Paul Mooney
#Confidence
#Fame
#Money
#Nothing
#Your
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.
- Paul Mooney
#Arrogance
#Myself
#People
#Way
#White
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
- Paul Mooney
#America
#Code
#Founded
#Name
#Race
Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year.
- Moshe Kahlon
#Earn
#Finance
#Industry
#Million
#Reach
In my opinion, he who invalidates is himself invalid.
- Moshe Kahlon
#He
#Himself
#In My Opinion
#Opinion
#Who
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
- Vaclav Havel
#Control
#Lose
#Man
#Meaning
#World
I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right.
- Louise Woodward
#Along
#Right
#Said
#Story
#Think
I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old.
- Louise Woodward
#Go
#Normal
#Old
#University
#Year
I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.
- Louise Woodward
#About
#Answer
#I Can
#Questions
#Trust
The support in Britain made a big difference.
- Louise Woodward
#Big
#Britain
#Difference
#Made
#Support
I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.
- Louise Woodward
#Coming Home
#Coming
#Consider
#Home
I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
- William Hague
#Government
#Know
#Nasty
#Nor
#Right
I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
- William Hague
#Agree
#Decisions
#Invasion
#Most
#Still
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
- Steve Earle
#Great
#Matter
#Music
#Remember
#Us
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
- Claudette Colvin
#Back
#Know
#Person
#Talking
#White
Rosa Parks wasn't the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
- Claudette Colvin
#Against
#First One
#First
#Parks
#Rebel
I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid their fare just like the white passengers.
- Claudette Colvin
#Bus
#Know
#Right
#White
#Young
The light-skinned girls always thought they were better looking. So did the teachers, too. That meant most of the dark complexion ones didn't like themselves.
- Claudette Colvin
#Always
#Better
#Dark
#Looking
#Teachers
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
- Max Weber
#Accomplishment
#Good
#Never
#Today
#Will
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
- Donna Tartt
#Children
#More
#Observation
#Sharp
#Time
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
- Donna Tartt
#Book
#Good
#Rather
#Ten
#Than
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
- Donna Tartt
#Childhood
#Loved
#Me
#More
#Way
The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.
- Yngwie Malmsteen
#Change
#Ego
#God
#Myself
#T-Shirt
I remember when I was a kid, if you had your name on a piece of vinyl, man, you were, like, in the halls of Valhalla; all of sudden, you were hanging out with Odin and being at the table of the gods. You were the real deal; you weren't some guy struggling in a garage somewhere.
- Yngwie Malmsteen
#Man
#Name
#Real
#Remember
#Somewhere
I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
- Henry Rollins
#Bulb
#Dead
#I Am
#Light Bulb
#Light
Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.
- Henry B. Eyring
#Life
#My Life
#Myself
#Prayer
#Time
When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
- Clint Smith
#Country
#Forget
#Freedom
#Ground
#Life
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
- Clint Smith
#Indigenous People
#Men
#People
#Women
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
- Hu Shih
#Achievement
#Better
#Death
#Knowledge
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
- Wole Soyinka
#Arrogance
#Colonialism
#Pride
#Way
#Your
I went on a date with a girl. The girl was really awesome, and we had a blast. Then it got to the point where she was wanting to kiss me. Everyone knows I do not go there.
- Brooke Hogan
#Everyone
#Girl
#Go
#Kiss
#Me
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.
- Rush Limbaugh
#Amendment
#First Amendment
#Give
#People
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
- Rush Limbaugh
#Bad
#How
#Representation
#See
#Without
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
- Stephen Levine
#Die
#Phone Call
#Phone
#Waiting
#Why
These 'free' applications ask for permission to read your emails, your text messages, listen to your phone calls, record video from your phone. Why else would someone spend millions developing an application which they then give away? Kind-hearted, maybe? Get real.
- John McAfee
#Free
#Phone
#Real
#Someone
#Why
I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.
- Marcel Duchamp
#Against
#Atheist
#I Am
#Just
#Man
There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.
- Big Boi
#Enough
#Just
#Media
#Numb
#People
That's the beauty of the fight: Anything can happen.
- Vitor Belfort
#Anything
#Beauty
#Fight
#Happen
In the natural life, we eat, we drink water, we give birth, we pay taxes. In the spiritual life, we can only reach it by faith.
- Vitor Belfort
#Birth
#Faith
#Life
#Spiritual
#Water
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
- Abraham Maslow
#Action
#Growth
#Humanity
#Place
#Tree
I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.
- Aaron Brown
#Between
#Difference
#Journalism
#Know
I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
- Aaron Brown
#Done
#Live
#Safety
#Security
#Something
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
- Aaron Brown
#Control
#Democracy
#Perfect
#Television
We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
- Aaron Brown
#Business
#Gathering
#News
#Talking
TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
- Aaron Brown
#Be Different
#Look
#News
#Want
#Watch
The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
- George Harrison
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#Mistake
#Myself
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
#Art
#Discipline
#Enemy
#Fear
#Officers
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
#Either
#Insult
#Limit
#Nation
#Reading
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
#Always
#Effect
#Harsh
#Like
#Which
Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.
- Emily V. Gordon
#Feel
#Human
#Long Time
#Long
#Time
'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.
- Emily V. Gordon
#Grief
#Loneliness
#Longing
#Story
#Woman
With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.
- Jonathan Ive
#Father
#Hands
#Nature
#Potential
#Work
If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.
- Jonathan Ive
#Anything
#Doing
#Having
#New
#Obstacles
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
- Frank Ocean
#Friend
#Life
#Mine
#Past
#Royalty
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
- Oliver North
#Enemy
#Fighting
#Two
#Us
#Win
I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.
- Kid Rock
#Good
#Long Time
#Long
#Never
#Time
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
- Kid Rock
#Blues
#Change
#Hip-Hop
#Music
#Rock
Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.
- Jane Seymour
#Bad
#More
#Now
#Something
#Transition
A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.
- Matt Dillon
#Age
#Beginning
#Life
#Me
#Start
I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.
- Matt Dillon
#About
#Character
#Long
#Whether
#Worry
I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
- Victoria Pendleton
#Heart
#Sleeve
#Someone
#Wears
#Who
I never lost a game against Bayern Munich until Pep Guardiola arrived. He made them better.
- Shinji Kagawa
#Against
#Better
#Game
#Lost
#Never
If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
- Kimbal Musk
#Fast Food
#Fast
#Food
#Language
#Speak
Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.
- Kimbal Musk
#Cities
#Right
#Roots
#Square
#Vertical
Start with the young, work with them until they are adults, and they will demand real food.
- Kimbal Musk
#Food
#Real
#Start
#Work
#Young
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
- Steve Ballmer
#Criticism
#Culture
#Great
#High
#Talking
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
- Pamela Meyer
#Fat
#Honey
#Look
#Nice
#Song
The question I asked when I woke up was not how am I going to live without legs - but how am I going to do all the things I want to do without legs? There was no doubt that I was going to do them, I was just curious to find out how - but I knew I was going to find a way.
- Alex Zanardi
#Curious
#Doubt
#Find
#Live
#Way
Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.
- Alex Zanardi
#Crazy
#Doing
#Me
#Myself
#Win
When you find yourself in a certain situation you have to identify where you want to go and focus on what you can achieve on that given day.
- Alex Zanardi
#Day
#Find
#Focus
#Situation
#Yourself
I have a little bit of a big head.
- Alex Zanardi
#Big Head
#Big
#Head
#Little Bit
#Little
People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.
- Ken Cuccinelli
#Bad
#Country
#Evil
#People
#Way
If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.
- Ken Cuccinelli
#Doing
#First Amendment
#Opinions
#Reason
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
- Dalton Trumbo
#Act
#Being
#Disadvantages
#Like
#Obliged
I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
- Dalton Trumbo
#Best
#King
#Me
#Picture
#Will
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
- Dalton Trumbo
#Anything
#Class
#Get
#Never
#Something
I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
- Dalton Trumbo
#Day
#I Am
#Never
#Picture
#Will
The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
- Dalton Trumbo
#Bedroom
#Happen
#Interesting
#Mattress
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