Sam Trammell Quotes
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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We love to play. We're good at what we do.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
