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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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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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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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 have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
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Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things.
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I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.
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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.
