Maria Semple Quotes

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

Maria Semple

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In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

John M. McHugh

LiveCommunityPeopleCreditTax

I certainly won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump.

Robert J. Bentley

Donald TrumpVoteWillCannotTrump

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

Anna Chlumsky

RelationshipCoffeePeopleThinkYou

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Anita Roddick

GoodHellDoingSomethingPublicAm

We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.

John Thune

TodayGenerationSolutionSecurity

I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I've believed that my whole life, and my experience as a businessperson for 30 years was if you ignore the sound and fury, American democracy works if you give it enough time.

Tom Steyer

LifeTimeExperienceDemocracyThink

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Roy Barnes

ChildLearnLastResponseResort

Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.

Mike Barnicle

HistoryEventsRealDisappearSeems

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

GodDeathPeopleMeBelievePerson

I don't even watch my own fights. If it's not someone from my team or someone I like, I guarantee you that I'll go to the movies with my family instead.

Jose Aldo

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Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

Jon Gruden

ManWantSeePlayoffsJustHe

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'

Jon Landau

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