Tom Ridge Quotes
I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
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The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
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Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.
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We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.
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I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.
