Lawrence Timmons Quotes
A lot of guys, especially the young guys, I try to do anything I can for them - on the field, off the field, anything.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
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I'm moderating one of the presidential primary debates right after I've had a baby. I'm sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton, and I'm pumping breast milk... twenty minutes before I'm going on.
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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
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It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
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It doesn't matter if you're sad or hung-over or lazy or tired - a workout will get your endorphins pumping, and you'll feel like a new person almost instantly.
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I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
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I want to regain my First Amendment rights.
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'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'
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When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
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My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.
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Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
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Whether I work or not depends on the family I get married to.
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A lot of guys, especially the young guys, I try to do anything I can for them - on the field, off the field, anything.
