Alben W. Barkley Quotes
...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new 'Pinocchio.' Osama bin Laden could attend a showing in Times Square and be confident of remaining hidden.
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I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
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My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.
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I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.
