Chuck Grassley Quotes
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
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Skinny Cow ice cream and candy - like dancing - brings a little bit of fun to your day.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak, so it's been nice to learn to let go and just trust others.
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Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
