Haley Barbour Quotes
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.
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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
