Sam Graves Quotes
When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof.
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I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
