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All Quotes Collection
"I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy."
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"If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win."
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"We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat."
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"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
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"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
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"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
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"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
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"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
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"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
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"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
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"Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action."
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"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
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"It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy."
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"The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans."
28
"In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead."
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"Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves."
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"Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase."
Will,
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"We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts."
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"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
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"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
37
"I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere."
43
"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."
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"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."
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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
39
"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
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"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."
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"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."
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"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
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