Bob Taft Quotes
We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
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I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
