Tom Coburn Quotes

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.

Tom Coburn

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One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.

Jessye Norman

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When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

Angie Thomas

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I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

Anita Shreve

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You can get a good handle on a company's culture before you even get inside the building. For example, when companies say, 'We value our employees' but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria, and over-the-top offices for the executives, that tells you more than any PR spin.

Steve Blank

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My tutorial videos are educational, but they're goofy - I'm just being myself.

Rosanna Pansino

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The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

Mike Lee

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You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!

Corey Taylor

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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

Bob Newhart

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What I'm going to do is I will eliminate everyone in the comms team, and we'll start over.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

Anthony Doerr

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Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

Ava DuVernay

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The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

Richard Greenberg

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