Steve Daines (Steven David Daines) Quotes
I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its unwavering stance on life. They have been a consistent, uncompromising voice defending life.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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I've been reading Nikita Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.
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Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
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Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
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I always have my own attitude towards everything in life.
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
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I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its unwavering stance on life. They have been a consistent, uncompromising voice defending life.
