Samuel Daniel Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.
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Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.
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As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.
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'But I tried though,' he says. 'Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?'
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.