Steve Chabot (Steven Joseph Chabot) Quotes
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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I have not met Donald Trump and discussed any issues with him. There have been Republican administrations like the George Bush administration who initiated this AIDS generosity. So it's not purely a right-left thing.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.
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Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
