Nick Rahall (Nick Joe Rahall II) Quotes
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Theres nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
