Patrick Leahy Quotes
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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The Republicans are coming - make nice.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
