Charles Schumer (Charles Ellis Schumer) Quotes
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
M. Stanton Evans -
I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
Yami Gautam -
I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
Usain Bolt -
These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
Valerie Plame -
Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
Laura Donnelly -
As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
Tamron Hall
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Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
Whitney Houston -
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I thought it was time to add a little humor.
J. M. Roberts -
I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
How deeply did you learn to let go?
Gautama Buddha
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I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
Chris Prentiss -
Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
Thomas Sowell -
Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.
Michael Horse -
You can point fingers on both sides. But only one side ever tried to fix the problem, and that is the Republican side.
Scott Garrett -
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Charles Schumer