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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(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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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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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.
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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.
