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 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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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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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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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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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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With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.
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If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
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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.
