Steve Scalise (Stephen Joseph Scalise) Quotes
We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.
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I'm always full of ideas. I just haven't stopped doing what I did as a teenager. Now I just happen to get paid for it!
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A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text.
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It came to a point where there was that curiosity factor: Was he going to hit 80? I'm sure it went through his head.
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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.
