Tim Bishop (Timothy Howard "Tim" Bishop) Quotes
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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Larry and Kathy (his wife) were both close friends of mine. I thought a lot of them. I still do.
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You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
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When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
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In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
