Everett Dirksen Quotes

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Everett Dirksen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I like to come home and completely forget about work.

Jenny Packham

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I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.

John Logan

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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Robert Hughes

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There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Jeb Bush

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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Steve Earle

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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Tom Hooper

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If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

Rod Stewart

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I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

Jason Kander

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I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Jay DeMarcus

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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

Joni Mitchell

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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Dennis Rodman

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