Michael C. Burgess Quotes

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

Michael C. Burgess

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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

Robert Maxwell

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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

Anita Borg

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I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

Stan Lee

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When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

Tom Hanks

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A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

Molly O'Keefe

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I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.

Miriam Margolyes

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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Jonathan Edwards

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The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

Chris Hadfield

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If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

Brendan Gill

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There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Bobby Orr

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Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.

Winnie Byanyima

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