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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One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.
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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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When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.
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We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
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The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.
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Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
