William Proxmire Quotes
The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
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A big part of our plan will be unleashing the power of the private sector to create more jobs at higher pay. And that means for us, creating an infrastructure bank to get private funds off the sidelines and complement our private investments.
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For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.
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Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort. And no chief executive of this great nation has, in earnest, developed a unique plan to remedy that discomfort.
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Don't limit yourself to wearing a black dress because it's 'slimming.'
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The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
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will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuing to operate, it must be in a way that does not violate air-quality standards.
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I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.
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She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.
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The standards for ballot access in New York State apply equally to all candidates seeking a given political nomination, ... In other words, all similarly situated are treated equally.
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Debbie was accused of being too overtly sexual and now the standards are different. Times have changed.
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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... without it love, without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.
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I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.
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Democrats don't sound united.
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The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
