Sam Donaldson Quotes
I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.
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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
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I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.
