Steve Scalise (Stephen Joseph Scalise) Quotes
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.
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Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
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There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.
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I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
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The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.
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Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.
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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe - turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you - if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.
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I'm a father first.
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Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
