I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.


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When the world turns its back on me, I'll turn my back against the world and look right at you,becau...
JAMES MATHEWS GEORGE
We all crack jokes, and life is one of em.We just have to make it a good one, and not a pun, because...
JAMES MATHEWS GEORGE
Icarus may have died, but he felt something that no one of his time felt before;the clouds.I know no...
JAMES MATHEWS GEORGE
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitati...
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL
'Putting People First' was progressivism revived and at its best.
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL
There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don...
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL
My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
HARRY CARAY
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and ever...
HARRY CARAY
When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
HARRY CARAY
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
HARRY CARAY
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and l...
HARRY CARAY
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to ...
HARRY CARAY
Holy cow!
HARRY CARAY
It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
HARRY CARAY
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an...
HARRY CALLAHAN
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that thei...
HARRY CALLAHAN
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
HARRY BROWNE
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn...
HARRY BROWNE
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently...
HARRY BROWNE
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - ...
HARRY BROWNE
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world...
HARRY BROWNE
Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their ow...
HARRY BROWNE
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki...
HARRY BROWNE
You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
HARRY BROWNE
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government ...
HARRY BROWNE
When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s...
HARRY BROWNE
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to m...
HARRY BROWNE
In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was pr...
HARRY BROWNE
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, relea...
HARRY BROWNE
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while...
HARRY BROWNE
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo...
HARRY BROWNE
The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
HARRY BROWNE
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while ...
HARRY BROWNE
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not j...
HARRY BROWNE
Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life b...
HARRY BROWNE
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
HARRY BRIDGES
Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they...
HARRY BRIDGES
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
HARRY BRIDGES
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the tr...
HARRY BRIDGES
I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the ...
HARRY BRIDGES
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people ...
HARRY BRIDGES
This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spiri...
HARRY BELAFONTE