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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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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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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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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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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In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
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I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
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As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that's all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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I am honored to have the opportunity to lead the extraordinary 23,000 employees of PG&E and to support their efforts to safely serve 16 million Californians.
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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.
