Sam Elliott Quotes
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.
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The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
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I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
