Jim Jeffords Quotes
The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
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The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.
