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John Boehner Quotes

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 17, 1949

Topics

Waiting Growing Up Growing Outside

We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.

Depression Superman Started Just

History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration.

Hope History Country Person Vote

I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'

Walk Better Feel You First Pitching

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

Future Past New Things You Look New

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

Bad Write Point Songs Felt Really

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.

John James Audubon

Think Land Never Content Dry Must

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

John Quincy Adams

Weakness Christian Vice Principle

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Robert Delaunay

Mind Eye Consciousness Senses Most

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

Change Heart People Ideas Think You

When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.

Energy Want Excitement Always See

I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.

Lisa Lampanelli

Work Job People Think Thought Want

Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person.

Cool Think Back Person Go Way

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