Marsha Blackburn Quotes
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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My education was very tough.
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Some of them wanted to take advantage of the disturbed situation.
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The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
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WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
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I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'
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Being Speaker of the House is a really tough spot.
