Lawrence Welk Quotes
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
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There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politiriscs.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
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I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.
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I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.
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I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
