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Rob Portman Quotes

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 19, 1955

Topics

Good You Security Fix Starting Even

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Work Love Father Want Something

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

Family God Great Money Legacy Think

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.

Teacher History Myself Voice Matter

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'

Time Moving Forward Evil Moving

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.

Romantic Beach Wife Busy Trying Go

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

Jason Robert Brown

Vision Control You Artist Why Freak

The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

Day Start Choices Grow Environment

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

Age History Run Human Out Point

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Business Money You Down Never Keep

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Years Fifty Dominant Far Course Ali

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

Football Practice Growing Up Stairs

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

Frozen Cook Suck Who TV Them

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