Gary Ackerman Quotes
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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A good leader must be fair.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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If I look at it and feel there is someone who can do it better, I won't do it. Whether it's 'Party Down' or 'Piranha 3-D,' I'm going to bring something to it to make it special.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
