Walter F. Mondale Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.
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Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
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I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.
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In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.
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I've never Googled myself on the Internet.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
