Evan Bayh Quotes

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

Evan Bayh

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I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.

Joe Carnahan

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A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

Joe Bonamassa

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I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

Jill Scott

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Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you've never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that.

Jen Sincero

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I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.

John D'Agata

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As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

John Lasseter

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I'd never left America until I was 18.

John McEnroe

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I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

Robert Morris

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I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.

Ann Beattie

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There is no prospect of any of us being able to kick out any of the presidents of Europe; they operate in a sphere and a realm well away from and out of reach of and out of touch with the people.

Michael Gove

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I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.

Christina Milian

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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

Cornel West

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