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Marriage Quotes
"Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
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"Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood."
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"I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation."
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"I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage."
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"When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that."
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"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
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"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."
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"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."
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"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights."
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"His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea."
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"I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks."
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"I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage."
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"Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage."
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"I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage."
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"I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse."
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"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
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"Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength."
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"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
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"Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman."
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"The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place."
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"Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion."
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"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"
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"It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort."
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"I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage."
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"Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
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"Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples."
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"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."
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"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married."
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"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps."
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"In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy."
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"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage."
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"Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost."
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"There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."
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