David Vitter Quotes
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I get homesick.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.
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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows.
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
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In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.
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Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - - -
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Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
