George McGovern Quotes
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
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I think comedy is funnier when it's real.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.
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Exchange with Floyd Landis, at Stage 17 of the Tour de France as reported in 'Score another for Armstrong' in VeloNews (22 July 2004)
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It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.
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I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.
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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
