Richard Burr Quotes

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

Richard Burr

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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Jill Lepore

HistoryRespectImaginationEmpathy

I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

Tracy Kidder

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I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

Tom Glazer

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I'll always be an actor first. I grew up doing musical theater, so music and acting, to me, have always gone hand in hand. I'm going to be an actor first because it's my career, but music will always be a part of me.

Jon Huertas

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Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

Johnny Weir

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If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

Bryan Robson

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Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.

Arjun Kapoor

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It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it would be unfair for me to have done both. I thought I'd leave something for somebody else. That's a quip.

William Wyler

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Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

Willie Stargell

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Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

Wim Wenders

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The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.

Pete Hoekstra

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