Trent Franks Quotes

The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.

Trent Franks

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Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

Joe Montana

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However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

John Boyd Orr

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I just want to love and be loved.

Jennie Garth

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I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.

Ann Leckie

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It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

Steve Carell

GivingPlayKindWhateverUsToy

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

Sidney Poitier

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Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.

Tracy McMillan

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As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Robin Gibb

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Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

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I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

Dominic Monaghan

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When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.

Dorothy McGuire

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A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're going to disrupt everything,' ignores some realities.

Chris Larsen

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