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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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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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.
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In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed.
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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.
