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Allen Boyd Quotes

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Allen Boyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1945

Topics

Education Women Health Men Promises

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

Jess Walter

Newspaper Events Current Events Come

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.

John Dickerson

Questions Asking Questions Asking

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

Robert Jay Lifton

Time World She Adult Sense He

I am still convinced I have the best job in the world.

Sonny Mehta

Best Job I Am World Still Convinced

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Roman Jakobson

Two Physical Linguistic Motor Sounds

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Rosemary Mahoney

Time Think You Person Effect Most

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a book.

Michiel Huisman

Book Enjoy Try Still Hours Fact

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

Logic

Everyone Something Going Different

You have to make a decision: Am gonna be the person that takes the risk? Am I gonna be the person that says I'm gonna start this business and I'm gonna follow through with it no matter what the obstacles?

Joy Mangano

Business Decision Obstacles Start

The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.

Dean Devlin

Family Great Together Adventure Few

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

Education Wisdom Knowledge Data

Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there's a lot more to it than that. Whether it's a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can't really find anywhere else.

Conrad Anker

Perspective World Ego Woods Face