Nancy Pelosi Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
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You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.
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I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
