Colin Powell Quotes

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

Colin Powell

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I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Jock Sturges

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I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

Alton Brown

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I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

Steve Martin

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Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Ronald Kessler

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I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

Mitt Romney

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Veterans are one area where Republicans and Democrats have made progress together.

Lois Frankel

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To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Jason Gann

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I just play my football, and if I can help people, then I help people.

Ashley Cole

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Alexander Wang, Saint Laurent, Balmain, and Goyard are my designers of choice.

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There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.

Nigel Lawson

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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

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You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.

Lela Loren

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