Olympia Snowe Quotes
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
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I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
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Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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Apparently she's the only one who is happy with this bill.
