Chellie Pingree Quotes
One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
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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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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.
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We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.
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I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.
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Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.
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Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
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One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
