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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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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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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Quite many people have ugly hands, and I thought I should not feel ashamed about it.
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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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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
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Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
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I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
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I try to focus on what I'm supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it's supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.
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The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
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It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
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You need to say and do the right things and good things happen to good people.
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I woke up and one of us was crying.
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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
