Virginia Foxx Quotes
This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
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Get my velocity back up -- it was down a little.
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.
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The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.
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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
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The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
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When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.
