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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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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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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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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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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I was a huge fan of Lance Armstrong. The only way that they caught him using doping was through a criminal investigation where they got all of his teammates who did the exact same thing that he did and got away with it to rat him out in exchange for their own immunity. The byproduct of that was that he had passed 500 anti-doping controls clean. So I'm going, "Wait, wait, wait. It's not, 'What's wrong with Lance Armstrong?' What's wrong with this system that was thoroughly ineffective to catch someone cheating for the last 15 years?"
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Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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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.
