Sam Rayburn Quotes
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
