Jim DeMint Quotes

I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

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• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
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  • You
  • Confident

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
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• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
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• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
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• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
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• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
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• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
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• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
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• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
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• I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

  

  AJ Lee
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  • Wrestling

• I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'

  

  Anne Wojcicki
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• I like to think of myself as a pure rebel;

  

  D-Nice Boogie Down Productions
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• Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• We want people to be as up to date as possible.

  

  B. R. Hayden
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• I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

  

  Jim DeMint
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