Sam Underwood Quotes
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
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As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
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I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
