Randy Forbes Quotes
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
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Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
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Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.
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I was such a punk.
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I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
