Daniel Inouye Quotes
I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.
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Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.
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I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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You can look good. Don't let nobody tell you you can't look good because of your size... or what size your feet is.
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I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.
