Steve Chabot (Steven Joseph Chabot) Quotes
Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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I think with the needs to feed the world's population, to end starvation, plant sciences offer great opportunities to do good and also to develop industry in St. Louis.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.
