Frank Lautenberg Quotes
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
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COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.
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Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.
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Definitely I feel my kids played a big role in why I was so successful in fighting.
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One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
