Olympia Snowe Quotes
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I never was a very good singer.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.
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My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious
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Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
