Todd Akin (William Todd Akin) Quotes
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I enjoy my life.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.
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Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
