Chuck Grassley Quotes
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
Quotes to Explore
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
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I thought Oasis were great.
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Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.
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Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .
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Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.
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My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
