Howard Baker Quotes
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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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.
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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.
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Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
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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.
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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.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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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.
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When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
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If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.
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I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
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Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
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Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.
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Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
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The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
