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Lamar Alexander Quotes

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

Lamar Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 3, 1940

Topics

Job You Looks President More Used

Driving a tractor never appealed to me. But I never wanted to go into business. Had I not accidentally fallen into acting, I would probably have gone home from college and farmed.

Michael Beck

Home Business College Me Driving Go

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Time Romantic Waste Metaphor Least

The thing about the basics is they don't really change - it's the details and the proportions that change. The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.

John Varvatos

Change Suits Details Talking You

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Stephen Rea

Yourself Be Yourself Someone Camera

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Jose Saramago

Positive Uncertainty Literature Doubt

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Denise Van Outen

Growing Up Start Growing Violin Up

Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

Doug E. Fresh

Health Water Myself Me Energy Push

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

Craig Brown

Tweeting Medium

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Brigitte Bardot

Think Know Way Think Big Big Like

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

Brian Ortega

Humble Myself Better Be Humble

Far as the government's reform agenda is concerned, a series of measures have been enacted which should increase the supply potential of the economy.

Arun Jaitley

Government Potential Economy Been

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Suzanne Fields

Science School Reading High School