Sam Trammell Quotes

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

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• I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
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• I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
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• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
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• Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

  

  Randa Haines
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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
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• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
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• To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
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• Everything's so accelerated now.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

  

  Wayne Newton
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• My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

  

  Bill Ayers
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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
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• There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.

  

  Emma Sulkowicz
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• The main point seems to be that I'm arrogant and narcissistic, which should be news to exactly four people.

  

  Barrett Brown
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• Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

  

  Sam Trammell
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