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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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 didn't really enjoy school in general.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.
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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.
