Thomas R. Marshall Quotes
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
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To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
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If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
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'An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things-as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.'
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I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
