Bob Taft Quotes
We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
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The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
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A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.
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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.
