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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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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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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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.
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When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.
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One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.
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Harry Dresden: In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.
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Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.
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This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.
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Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
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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.
