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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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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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.
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I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
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You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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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.
