Claude Pepper Quotes
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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Figure out who you are.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.
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After a few weeks, Frank did not appear to want Martha there, but she stayed. When Frank stopped speaking to her, it made no difference and they lived that way for twenty years.
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Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.
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One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
