Mike Duke Quotes

It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

Mike Duke

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It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

Jim Sensenbrenner

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You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Joe Klein

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I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

Jim Clyburn

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Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!

John Hillcoat

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Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Tommy Chong

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When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.

Roger Penrose

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In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.

Chellie Pingree

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My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

Colin Quinn

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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

Brian Ferneyhough

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

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We have a funny sort of love/hate relationship with critics because, unfortunately, in the art/commerce dance that we do, they drive people to the restaurant. Regardless of sometimes how well we prepare the food, if people don't know that we're out there, if someone isn't talking about us, you guys aren't coming.

Wylie Dufresne

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In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.

Sean Quinn

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