Evan Bayh Quotes
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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The forum is an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.
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The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
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The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
