Mark Udall Quotes
I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
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The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
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I would say to the leaders of the Soviet Union, and to their people, that if either of our countries is to be fully secure, we need a much better weapon than the H-bomb - a weapon better than ballistic missiles or nuclear submarines - and that better weapon is peaceful cooperation.
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I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
