Richard Lamm Quotes
Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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I think there are a lot of great ideas out in America, and I want you to have a say in your government. And that means we have to get unaccountable money out of our politics, overturn Citizens United, and expand voting rights, not restrict them.
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There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
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It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
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As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
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If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
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I was a cute kid.
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Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
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I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.
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Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
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Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
