Lamar Alexander Quotes
I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
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I never think people are too careful with me.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.
