Albert Collins (Albert Gene Drewery) Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
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We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.
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Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.
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By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.
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The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.
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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
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... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.
