Paul Sarbanes Quotes
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I do not cook.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
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I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.
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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
