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Evan Bayh Quotes

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 26, 1955

Topics

Today Enough Rules Stop Vote Two

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

Life Writing Details Back Sometimes

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

Waiting Feel You Create Own Sell

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Enough Never Little Anything Get

I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.

John T. Chambers

Work Technology Time Finance Law

I'm lucky that I was in retailing during the time that I call the golden age of retailing.

Age Time Golden Lucky Call

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

Fruit Eat Vegetarian Like Lot

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

Alone Writing Long You Now Out

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

Thoughts Negative Think Possibilities

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

Age Time Purpose Potential First

Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

Baseball Never Outside Paycheck Drew

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

Dreams City Me True Shirt Working

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

Me Help You Seeing Said Nike

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