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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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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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.
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I could find only three kinds of business in the world-mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?
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I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.
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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.
