Howard Baker Quotes
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
Howard Baker
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
Barbara Park
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We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
Frances McDormand
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I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
Ice T
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
Barack Obama
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Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.
Wassily Kandinsky
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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
Walt Kelly
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Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.
Wallace Stevens
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne
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It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.
Anthony Santos
Aventura
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What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.
Chiang Kai-shek
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When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
Les Baxter