Bill Haslam Quotes
My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
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I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
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'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.
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More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.
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Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.
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My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
