Richard Lamm Quotes
I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.Richard Lamm
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Calvin Harris -
I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
Pat Nixon -
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser -
Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
Maelle Gavet -
I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
Eddie Slovik -
I can do a gig without an instrument.
Gavin DeGraw
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.
Martha Beck -
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
J. Edgar Hoover -
In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
Alphonsus Liguori -
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
Margery Allingham -
Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.
C. J. Chivers
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I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.
Max Roach -
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I sometimes think 'Gordon' must be the most bootlegged album in U.S history, since it sold only 200,000 copies in the country, yet 800,000 kids know the words to every song.
Steven Jay Page Barenaked Ladies -
For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.
B. J. Porter -
We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.
Joseph Crowley -
Heterosexuals and homosexuals are considered different because they can be divided into two groups on the basis of the belief that they can be divided into two groups.
Hanne Blank