Sam Donaldson Quotes
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
