Dan Quayle Quotes
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
Quotes to Explore
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with 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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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
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I find the business world hard.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
