William Proxmire Quotes
The last few years have been my happiest. Im happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I dont feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
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The last few years have been my happiest. Im happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I dont feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
