Harold Ford, Jr. Quotes
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.Harold Ford, Jr.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
Wendy Cope -
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
Rainbow Rowell -
I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
Campbell Scott -
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
Otto Frank
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
H. R. McMaster -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
Gary Larson -
I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
Tamara Tunie -
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
Irvine Welsh -
I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
Dane Cook
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
Sam Kinison -
I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
Dan Webster -
My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
Karin Slaughter -
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
Felix Dennis
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I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
Dave Chappelle -
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner -
I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good. A positive good.
John C. Calhoun -
You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.
Butch Trucks -
The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.
Bob Richards -
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
Harold Ford, Jr.