Lamar Alexander Quotes
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Funny is an attitude.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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No man may make another free.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.
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Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.
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Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
