Sam Ervin Quotes
I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
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Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Beauty least adorned is most adorned
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I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.
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I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
