John Yoo Quotes

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

John Yoo

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WarLegalLostResponsibleStructure

Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

Jerry West

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When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

Jeremy Spencer

HomeMusicTimeTalentBlueMe

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey

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The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building.

Steve Scalise

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The only way round is through.

Robert Frost

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Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

Russell Crowe

LifeMusicMy LifeFirstAlwaysOut

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

Mathias Rust

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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

Mary Oliver

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People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

Denise Mina

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Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

Cornelia Parker

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My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

Breckin Meyer

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My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses.

William Sanderson

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