Emanuel Cleaver Quotes

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

Emanuel Cleaver

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• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Father

• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Broken
  • Connection

• Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Air

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Done
  • Party
  • Day

• O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Heart
  • May
  • Broken

• I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • King
  • Broken

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Men
  • Small

• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Career
  • Day
  • Broken

• What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Broken

• Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Broken

• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Social

• The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Strong
  • Broken
  • Habit

• I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

  

  Uri Geller
  • People
  • House
  • Broken

• I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorizes as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Religious
  • Moral
  • Aesthetic

• Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's inspiring being surrounded by people who do more than you. It makes you want to do better. You're in the position to learn from the best.

  

  Costa Ronin
  • People

• Now her coat drags through the water,Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnowsIn the magnetic embrace,Balletic and glacial, of Bear's insatiable shadow.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Life
  • Water
  • Shadow

• The one thing the guys have done an inch more than last year was coming out and challenging themselves even more. I said this last year that they challenged themselves, but this year they have added onto that.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Done
  • Guys
  • Last

• Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

  

  Emanuel Cleaver
  • Broken