John Conyers Quotes
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly-no mistake.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
