Charles W. Pickering Quotes
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
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I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.
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Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
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I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
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If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.
