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Tom Graves Quotes

From day one, my focus as a new-breed appropriator was to look for areas where we could save taxpayer dollars.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1970

Topics

Focus Day Look Where Save Day One

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

Research Organization Think Heritage

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

Meghan O'Rourke

Mother Day Deep Thought Fake Never

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

I Am Seriously Doom Prophets Taken

I was a workaholic, I had food issues, and I had body issues. I was in a lot of pain. My parents didn't recognise what was going on.

Amanda de Cadenet

Food Pain Parents Body Going Issues

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

Great World Opportunities Jump Oil

On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Live Law Think Better Lawyers Whole

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Success Confidence Honesty Ability

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Life Storm Fly Potential Reach Dirt

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Prosperity Others Seen Only Virtues

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Douglas Fairbanks

Life Man World Doubt Living Nothing

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

Work Simple Imagination Me Strong

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

Positive Mountain People Negative

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