Bill Haslam Quotes

My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.

Bill Haslam

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We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.

Jen Sincero

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This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

Melissa Auf der Maur

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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

Andre Agassi

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I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

Jeff Ament

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It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

Jeff Lynne

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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

John Sladek

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I've got a chance to host a show called 'Redneck Island' on CMT. I love doing that show.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.

Sissy Spacek

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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Siegfried Sassoon

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I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.'

Tom Hanks

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Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Russell M. Nelson

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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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