Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.
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If there were a billion people living on the planet, we could do whatever we please. But there are nearly seven billion. At this scale, life as we know it today is not sustainable.
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
