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Everett Dirksen Quotes

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Everett Dirksen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 4, 1896 - September 7, 1969

Topics

Man I Am Flexible Principles First

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

Myself Person Kind Right Something

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

John Archibald Wheeler

Beautiful Simple Stupid Say Will

My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.

Communication Daughter Myself Stress

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Love People Want Understand Talk

You date people to practice and to learn and to grow. But for me, everything was always a hang-up, or there was something there that I felt was a bit off.

Practice People Me Grow Learn You

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

Down Go Never Anything Take Get

If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political campaigns in American history. It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.

Success History American Political

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

Great Evil Think Wrong Canada Him

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.

Time Me Long Long Time Kind Going

We march on because all lives matter, not to be judged by the color of their skin.

Color Skin March Matter Because

I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.

Conrad Ricamora

Loved Village Want West Created

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

Coretta Scott King

World Violence Seeing Nonviolence

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