Earl Long Quotes
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting to tell you their opinions, which you won't find nearly as interesting.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
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I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.
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It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.
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Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.
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You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'
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The triumph of an uncluttered mind.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
