Richard Shelby Quotes

If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • First

• I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Proud
  • United States
  • Member

• A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Place
  • Everyday
  • Where

• I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Pretty
  • Years
  • Before

• I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Relationships
  • Tough
  • Stand

• I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • God
  • Mother
  • Father

• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect

• ...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.

  

  Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • Struggle

• The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Actions
  • Motives
  • Examination

• If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Different
  • Play
  • Games

• I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

  

  Jonathan Frid
  • Company
  • Winter
  • Bartender

• Here I am: My brain is open.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Brain
  • Here
  • Open

• Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • God
  • Heart
  • Lose

• If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

  

  Allison Winn Scotch
  • Choices
  • Victories
  • Losses

• America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but also good for others. That will make Americans exporters of hope again, not exporters of fear.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • Country
  • America
  • Way

• When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Changed
  • Careers
  • Events

• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Very

• If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Want
  • Me
  • Chair

• If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Chair
  • Committee