Bob Graham Quotes
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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Quite many people have ugly hands, and I thought I should not feel ashamed about it.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war.
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Cuando todo está hecho, las mañanas son tristes.
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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
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Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.
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Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
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As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.
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Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
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I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.
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I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.
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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
