Brian Schatz Quotes
No one can fill Senator Daniel K. Inouye's shoes - but together, all of us, we can try to walk in his footsteps.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I just want to do my job.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
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I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.
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These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.
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No one can fill Senator Daniel K. Inouye's shoes - but together, all of us, we can try to walk in his footsteps.
