Evan Bayh Quotes
Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
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I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.
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I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.
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Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
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I think HBO and a couple of the other cable channels in America are making some of the best television that's ever been made.
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It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.
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Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.
