Richard Lamm Quotes

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Richard Lamm

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RunPresidentUnitedGoingJust

For sure, one moment really defined the path that I was to take in the future, and that was when I won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York in April of 1995. I had just turned 25 two days before the finals concert, and when I won, I had no idea how my life would change because of it.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

Tom Hodgkinson

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When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

Tom Freston

RelationshipBalanceLossYouBack

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

SchoolCoolCrazyYouGoTalk

When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.

Mike Birbiglia

PeopleSometimesOutTakeStarted

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

Mike Judge

PeopleYouTrySome PeopleCruel

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

Louise Slaughter

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I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Judy Greer

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Instead of incentivizing quick, short-term decisions, the federal government should be asking the tough questions when governments turn over publicly funded transportation assets to for-profit operators.

Dick Durbin

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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

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The fact that I went from making a minute-and-a-half video in my bedroom to doing an hour-and-a-half live show is just crazy.

Colleen Ballinger

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In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Bob Beamon

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