Todd Akin (William Todd Akin) Quotes

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

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• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

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• The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

  

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• 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

  

  Yara Shahidi
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• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

  

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• I find celebrity really scary.

  

  Kate Ashfield
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• One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

  

  Saint Basil
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• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
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• I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
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• I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
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• I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
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• Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

  

  Beau Bridges
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• I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
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• The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education.

  

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• I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

  

  Eugenio Montale
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• Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
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• You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

  

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• It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

  

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• I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.

  

  Karen Allen
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• You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

  

  Todd Akin
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  • Movement