Ken Mehlman Quotes

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

Ken Mehlman

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In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world.

Joby Warrick

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I'm usually attracted to more interesting types of men. I have no desire to be with a cookie-cutter Ken doll.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike

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I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

Steven Wright

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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Lorna Luft

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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Derek Jarman

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There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.

Deborah Harkness

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I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

Christina Ricci

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James

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A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

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I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.

Richard Pryor

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I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

Gwendoline Christie

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