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Dick Durbin Quotes

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 21, 1944

Topics

Death Purpose Effort You Know Talk

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

Kindness God People Me Moments Act

I don't entirely reject the idea of efficient markets. It needs updating.

Idea Needs Markets Efficient Reject

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Quality More Because Like Than He

I wanted to do something a little bit more feminine after my second movie, 'Joshy,' which was so masculine.

More Little Something Second Movie

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Justice Ignorance Principles Veil

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

Robin S. Sharma

Discipline Best Baby Shine Small

I was born in the studio. I knew I loved music. I found my niche at, like, seven or eight. That's when I knew I wanted to rap.

Music Loved Born Rap Niche Seven

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

Car Time Fight Enough Trying Rock

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Culture Religion America Doing Done

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.

Positive Law Result Escape Within

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God Action Hands Become Through

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

Yourself Writing Song Saying You

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