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All Quotes Collection
"I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant."
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"Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves."
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"In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts."
34
"The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States."
33
"The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership."
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"Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about."
29
"People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist."
29
"One right decision doth not a great president make."
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"Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it."
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"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."
31
"Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?"
34
"If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground."
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"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense."
26
"I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career."
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"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."
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"My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about."
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"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called."
28
"I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept."
26
"Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story."
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"That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt."
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"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
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"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
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"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
50
"I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation."
48
"I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions."
40
"I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty."
73
"I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world."
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"I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted."
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"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
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"The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism."
40
"Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death."
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