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If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
Author:
Loretta Young
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Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
Author:
John Yoo
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Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.
Author:
Lalu Yadav
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For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Author:
Steven Wright
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The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
Author:
James Wolcott
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I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
Author:
Henry Wise
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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
Author:
Alex Winter
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Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Author:
Robin Williams
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The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
Author:
Anna Wickham
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It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
Author:
Frank Whittle
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Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
Author:
George Whitefield
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For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.
Author:
Christiaan Wet
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Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
Author:
Arsene Wenger
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If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
Author:
George Weinberg
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And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
Author:
George Weah
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I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
Author:
Tom Watson
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There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.
Author:
John Warner
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The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement.
Author:
Greg Walden
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The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
Author:
Gijs Vries
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
Author:
Gijs Vries
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We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
Author:
Gijs Vries
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Author:
Voltaire
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Latinos must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society.
Author:
Patricia Velazquez
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If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Author:
Jim Valvano
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I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.
Author:
Karl Urban
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Author:
Mo Udall
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Author:
Harriet Tubman
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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Author:
Donald Trump
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
Author:
Donald Trump
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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
Author:
Linda Tripp
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All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
Author:
Clarence Thomas
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The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
Author:
Nguyen Thieu
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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He who flees will fight again.
Author:
Tertullian
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What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back.
Author:
Lee Tergesen
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My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Author:
Edward Teller
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I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.
Author:
Frank Tashlin
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He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.
Author:
Tom Tancredo
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We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.
Author:
Tom Tancredo
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Author:
Oliver Tambo
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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
Author:
Jalal Talabani
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We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
Author:
Jalal Talabani
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
Author:
William Taft
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Author:
Tacitus
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It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
Author:
Kim Sung
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I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.
Author:
Megawati Sukarnoputri
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
Author:
August Strindberg
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I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.
Author:
Yvonne Strahovski
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A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
Author:
J. Straczynski
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Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
Author:
J. Straczynski
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Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
Author:
John Strachan
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I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.
Author:
Frank Stockton
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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Author:
Max Stirner
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I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
Author:
Martha Stewart
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
Author:
Parker Stevenson
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.
Author:
Gwen Stefani
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There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.
Author:
Michael Steele
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But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
Author:
Jason Statham
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
Author:
Charles Stanley
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Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.
Author:
Scott Speedman
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When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
Author:
Boris Spassky
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You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.
Author:
Brett Somers
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.
Author:
Anna Smith
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Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
Author:
Joe Slovo
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Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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If you got a name like Barack Obama, you're supposed to fight.
Author:
Sinbad
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If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
Author:
O. Simpson
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I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.
Author:
Ruth Simmons
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I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Author:
Russell Simmons
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The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
Author:
Paul Signac
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If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
Author:
William Sherman
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Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Author:
George Shaw
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
Author:
Ravi Shankar
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Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
Author:
John Shadegg
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The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Author:
Frank Serpico
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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.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
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When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.
Author:
Connie Sellecca
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Author:
Bobby Seale
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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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We can fight Big Industry.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
Author:
David Schwartz
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I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
Author:
Charles Schumer
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The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
Author:
Klaus Schulze
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The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Author:
Rose Schneiderman
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Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.
Author:
Samuel Schmid
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Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
Author:
Max Schmeling
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No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
Author:
Bobby Sands
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We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
Author:
Ali Saleh
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Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.
Author:
Ken Salazar
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
Author:
John Salazar
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If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Author:
Paul Ryan
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That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'
Author:
David Russell
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
Author:
Arundhati Roy
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Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
Author:
Tim Roth
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.
Author:
Hilary Rosen
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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
Author:
Erwin Rommel
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Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Author:
Erwin Rommel
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Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Author:
Erwin Rommel
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I told them I would work to strengthen and secure Medicare for generations to come, and I told them I would fight for a new prescription drug benefit under Medicare.
Author:
Mike Rogers
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We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.
Author:
George Rockwell
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Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
Author:
Pat Roberts
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You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Author:
Bob Riley
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The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
Author:
Bob Riley
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I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
Author:
Patricia Richardson
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We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.
Author:
Condoleezza Rice
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Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.
Author:
Rick Renzi
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Author:
Carl Reiner
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As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
Author:
Ziaur Rahman
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Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
Author:
James Rado
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Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
Author:
Ludwig Quidde
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We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Author:
Vladimir Putin
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No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
Author:
Vladimir Putin
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I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders.
Author:
Mark Pryor
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I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.
Author:
Mark Pryor
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Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.
Author:
Victoria Pratt
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As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.
Author:
Jon Porter
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Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
Author:
Pete Pont
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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.
Author:
John Pomfret
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Author:
Plato
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
Author:
Abbe Pierre
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
Author:
Emo Philips
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There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
Author:
Matthew Perry
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I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.
Author:
Ron Perlman
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More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
Author:
Mike Pence
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
Author:
Nancy Pelosi
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
Author:
Nancy Pelosi
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The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Author:
Luciano Pavarotti
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
Author:
George Patton
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Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
Author:
George Patton
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I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy.
Author:
Robert Pattinson
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
Author:
Floyd Patterson
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I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.
Author:
George Pataki
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Author:
Gordon Parks
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They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.
Author:
Sylvia Pankhurst
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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Author:
George Orwell
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I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.
Author:
Benjamin Orr
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Never fight an inanimate object.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Author:
Robert Orben
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Author:
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
Author:
Larry Norman
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Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Author:
Adela Nicolson
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Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.
Author:
Stevie Nicks
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Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
Author:
Stevie Nicks
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Author:
Huey Newton
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We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.
Author:
Randy Neugebauer
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You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.
Author:
Michael Nesmith
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If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
Author:
Graham Nelson
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Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.
Author:
Don Nelson
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We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Author:
Yoweri Museveni
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.
Author:
Tim Murphy
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
Author:
Cillian Murphy
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What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
Author:
Bill Moyers
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I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.
Author:
Mark Mothersbaugh
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
Author:
William Morris
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Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
Author:
Dick Morris
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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.
Author:
Roy Moore
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We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.
Author:
Gwen Moore
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I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
Author:
Clayton Moore
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I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.
Author:
Clayton Moore
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Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.
Author:
Archie Moore
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Author:
Bernard Montgomery
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Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
Author:
Marc Molne
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
Author:
Kate Millett
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I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Author:
Zell Miller
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What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
Author:
Dennis Miller
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Author:
John Mill
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Author:
John Mill
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Author:
John Mill
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'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.
Author:
John Milius
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I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
Author:
Christina Milian
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
Author:
Barbara Mikulski
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I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
Author:
Barbara Mikulski
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Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.
Author:
Al Michaels
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We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.
Author:
Tom Metzger
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The man who runs may fight again.
Author:
Menander
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Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
Author:
John Mellencamp
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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Author:
Golda Meir
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If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.
Author:
Gerald McRaney
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We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.
Author:
Cathy McMorris
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
Author:
Al McGuire
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Author:
Barry McGuigan
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Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
Author:
John McGraw
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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
Author:
Patrick McGoohan
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If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
Author:
William McFee
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You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
Author:
Hattie McDaniel
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Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
Author:
John McCain
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Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
Author:
John McCain
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
Author:
Barry McCaffrey
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It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
Author:
Aslan Maskhadov
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Don't fight the problem, decide it.
Author:
George Marshall
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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
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Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Author:
Bob Marley
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
Author:
Ed Markey
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Author:
Imelda Marcos
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I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
Author:
Rocky Marciano
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Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.
Author:
Kenny Marchant
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And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
Author:
Shirley Manson
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.
Author:
Nong Manh
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
Author:
William Manchester
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It's been so long since I was in a real fight.
Author:
Method Man
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Author:
Malcolm Malcolm X
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Author:
Malcolm Malcolm X
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When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.
Author:
Hermann Maier
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I still have more to fight for in the coming years.
Author:
Hermann Maier
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For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
Author:
Hermann Maier
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I really fight for my privacy.
Author:
Kyle MacLachlan
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If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
Author:
Peter MacKay
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The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
Author:
Alice MacDougall
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I am happy to have now as Danny finally a more difficult role, in which I can shoot and fight.
Author:
James MacArthur
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Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.
Author:
Rosa Luxemburg