Dave Obey Quotes
I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.
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Focusing on the right priorities can help you do more faster.
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My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
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My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
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I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.
