Paul Samuelson (Paul Anthony Samuelson) Quotes
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
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Men don't hear women.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
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Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
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All day long they work so hard till the sun is goin' down. Working on the highways and byways and wearing, wearing a frown. You hear them moanin' their lives away. Then you hear somebody say: 'That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.'
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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A big part of me just lets everything go.
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It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.
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Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
