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 didn't really enjoy school in general.
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
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Free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?
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In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.
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Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
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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.
