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Ralph Archbold

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and...
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ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW You could look at it two different ways. You could look at it as being relieved, we're moving on. Bu...
DALLAS DRAKE Doesn't it make sense to try and figure out a way to legally license them to do what they're already...
DAVID ADELSON Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.

I will either find a way or make one.
KENDALL RYAN I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to ...
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GAIL CARRIGER If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
CHER If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
ROY T. BENNETT I think everybody has idiosyncrasies, ... You just do your deal and constantly figure out a way to d...
MIKE LEACH Everybody?s trying to figure out how to make a living, and no one wants to give up. Fishing is a lot...
HARRY ALLEN We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and diver...
BENNETT MILLER If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
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GARY VAYNERCHUK If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly...
PAUL GRAHAM It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Go ahead and do it. I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me.
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BOB CORKER I have a knack for putting order to chaos and for looking at the big picture. It is wonderful when y...
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LOUIS MENAND If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
JIM ROHN The FAA's job is to figure out a way to make the airspace work,
BOB FILNER Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you ...
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Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
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PHIL MICKELSON if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We weren't writing it to sell the film and weren't writing it to sell the movie; we were literally g...
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RUTH REICHL A spontaneous prayer makes differences and does changes.
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C. JOYBELL C. Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD God wonderfully made you different; you must make a wonderful difference !
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HARLAN COBEN A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
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TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
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CHUCK WILSON Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not li...
LUKE WILSON Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves yo...
JOHANNA DE SILENTIO There ain't no way you can do that. They'll find a way around it. (Crew chiefs) will find a way arou...
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BJORK Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
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ANTONY GORMLEY What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
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ANTHONY LICCIONE You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found somet...
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JOHN CONNOLLY A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through t...
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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
RALPH ARCHBOLD Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.
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RALPH ARCHBOLD I've been on the Daily Show several times, and I've been written up in Rolling Stone magazine.
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RALPH ARCHBOLD We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago.
ERIN ARCHBOLD During the parade, we didn't have any foot traffic. But after the parade, our entire store was fille...
ERIN ARCHBOLD We definitely look forward to these events.
ERIN ARCHBOLD In just the last two and a half or three years, I've noticed a big difference in the clientele.
ERIN ARCHBOLD In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have...
RALPH GIBSON Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your f...
RALPH MARSTON I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
RALPH WAITE Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut o...
RALPH WAITE 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off...
RALPH WAITE The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're on...
RALPH WAITE I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a l...
RALPH WAITE I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
RALPH WAITE You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
RALPH WAITE There is no truly global justice.
RALPH STEADMAN Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes...
RALPH STEADMAN Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
RALPH STEADMAN I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
RALPH STEADMAN We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
RALPH STEADMAN Isolationism is over.
RALPH STEADMAN I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what bei...
RALPH STEADMAN Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
RALPH STEADMAN I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
RALPH STEADMAN Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
RALPH STEADMAN I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affe...
RALPH STEADMAN The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
RALPH STEADMAN Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and r...
RALPH STEADMAN You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force...
RALPH STEADMAN God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
RALPH STEADMAN It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
RALPH STEADMAN You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even ...
RALPH STEADMAN Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference ...
RALPH STEADMAN I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
RALPH STEADMAN Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out o...
RALPH STEADMAN I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
RALPH STEADMAN The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost...
RALPH STANLEY I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley...
RALPH STANLEY I believe in my music.
RALPH STANLEY I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can&...
RALPH STANLEY I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to...
RALPH STANLEY I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
RALPH STANLEY We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into tea...
RALPH REGULA In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes th...
RALPH REGULA My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH a...
RALPH REGULA People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By be...
RALPH REGULA Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal se...
RALPH RANSOM Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th...
RALPH PETERS I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've ser...
RALPH PETERS The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
RALPH PETERS Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those ar...
RALPH PETERS Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
RALPH PETERS Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
RALPH PETERS Social peace requires reciprocity.
RALPH PETERS When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'...
RALPH PETERS The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest probl...
RALPH PETERS The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu...
RALPH PETERS In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
RALPH PETERS My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
RALPH NORMAN My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ...
RALPH NORMAN Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t...
RALPH NORMAN I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c...
RALPH NORMAN What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free p...
RALPH NORMAN Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t...
RALPH NORMAN My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
RALPH NORMAN I am a businessman.
RALPH NORMAN I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
RALPH NORMAN Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ...
RALPH NORMAN I believe in the free enterprise system.
RALPH NORMAN John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it...
RALPH NORMAN I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe...
RALPH NORMAN If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.
RALPH NORMAN Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
RALPH NADER It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the...
RALPH NADER I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and c...
RALPH NADER This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
RALPH NADER Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
RALPH NADER Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral bas...
RALPH NADER The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
RALPH NADER Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
RALPH NADER The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf...
RALPH NADER No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
RALPH NADER The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by pe...
RALPH NADER John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, b...
RALPH NADER The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their...
RALPH NADER A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
RALPH NADER The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
RALPH NADER A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ...
RALPH NADER If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
RALPH NADER If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its p...
RALPH MERKLE Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is v...
RALPH MERKLE Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific ...
RALPH MERKLE One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resou...
RALPH MERKLE One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger m...
RALPH MERKLE There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of ...
RALPH MERKLE A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll...
RALPH MERKLE Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today&#...
RALPH MERKLE One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing...
RALPH MERKLE We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost...
RALPH MERKLE We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
RALPH MERKLE If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most ...
RALPH MERKLE The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, an...
RALPH MERKLE Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditio...
RALPH MERKLE If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your hea...
RALPH MERKLE Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce fo...
RALPH MERKLE Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a...
RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power i...
RALPH MERKLE Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
RALPH MARSTON If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choos...
RALPH MARSTON There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them...
RALPH MARSTON Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how ...
RALPH MARSTON The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is g...
RALPH MARSTON Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you'...
RALPH MARSTON Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to c...
RALPH MARSTON Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
RALPH MARSTON Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each mo...
RALPH MARSTON Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet ...
RALPH MARSTON There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, ...
RALPH MACCHIO Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied...
RALPH MACCHIO I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a gre...
RALPH MACCHIO The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
RALPH MACCHIO Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't ha...
RALPH LAUREN My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h...
RALPH LAUREN I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I...
RALPH LAUREN It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's no...
RALPH LAUREN I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion v...
RALPH LAUREN They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes...
RALPH LAUREN I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought ...
RALPH LAUREN I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
RALPH LAUREN I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
RALPH LAUREN The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how the...
RALPH LAUREN I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
RALPH LAUREN My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I...
RALPH LAUREN You have to create something from nothing.
RALPH LAUREN Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
RALPH KINER All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
RALPH KINER Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
RALPH KINER I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact ...
RALPH KINER If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
RALPH KINER The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
RALPH HODGSON When the country is at war, you need to support the president.
RALPH HALL As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneur...
RALPH HALL President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less gover...
RALPH HALL I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That&#...
RALPH HALL When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
RALPH HALL I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
RALPH HALL I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've alwa...
RALPH HALL It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember ...
RALPH HALL I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help ...
RALPH HALL I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, on...
RALPH GIBSON One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am a...
RALPH GIBSON First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally ...
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RALPH FIENNES We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
RALPH FIENNES The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
RALPH FIENNES I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people ...
RALPH FIENNES I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
RALPH FIENNES I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
RALPH FIENNES So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and w...
RALPH FIENNES Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do a...
RALPH FIENNES I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about som...
RALPH FIENNES As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but t...
RALPH FIENNES You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
RALPH FIENNES I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as ...
RALPH FIENNES Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession ...
RALPH FIENNES Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
RALPH FIENNES I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
RALPH FIENNES I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic...
RALPH FIENNES There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it ve...
RALPH FIENNES There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and sud...
RALPH FIENNES God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlighten...
RALPH FIENNES Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
RALPH FIENNES Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
RALPH ELLISON Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISON The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and...
RALPH ELLISON Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh...
RALPH ELLISON Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
RALPH ELLISON America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...
RALPH ELLISON I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might e...
RALPH ELLISON Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
RALPH ELLISON Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a ...
RALPH CUDWORTH The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at al...
RALPH CUDWORTH Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out...
RALPH CUDWORTH Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vig...
RALPH CUDWORTH Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than...
RALPH CHAPLIN Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
RALPH CHAPLIN The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
RALPH CHAPLIN The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor soli...
RALPH CHAPLIN It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upo...
RALPH CHAPLIN