Douglas R. Oberhelman Quotes
Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.
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I'm a character actor.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Claim ownership of your dreams
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
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Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.
