Bill Delahunt Quotes
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
Floyd Skloot
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
A. James Clark
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
Oliver Sacks
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Ice Cube
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings
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I love Niecy Nash. I would take a vacation with the lady. She is just delightful.
Jack McBrayer
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
Samuel Barnett
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Lady Gaga
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
Fareed Zakaria
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I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
Dan Shechtman
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
Cameron Winklevoss
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
Wally Schirra
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Zig Ziglar
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People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.
David Duchovny
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You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.
Barack Obama
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
Tamsin Greig
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There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.
Craig Charles
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Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.
Lisa Lampanelli
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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
Bill Delahunt