Carl Levin Quotes
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
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Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.
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I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.
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A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.
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All that they seem to say is 'nigger, nigger, nigger'.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
