Sam Graves Quotes
It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I get so many different types of people emailing me how much my story impacts them. Hearing that inspires me every day to keep going and going.
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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.
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I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
