Lamar Alexander Quotes

The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

Lamar Alexander

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FamilyThinkBetterProblemCountry

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Andrea Barrett

ScienceHealthPeopleConflictFeel

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

Matthew Quick

TeacherTimeJobSchoolParents

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

Stipe Miocic

FightingYouKnowFirstBillsPays

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

Steve Zahn

GoodJobSchoolHigh SchoolThought

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Robbie Williams

BusinessEgoDoingNewWantWell

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

Mary Ellen Mark

BeginningTravelDreamKidUsed

Compared to some other guys at 205, of course, I'll be a little small. But I've never tried to just physically go for it, bulk up, lift weights.

Luke Rockhold

SmallGoLiftGo For ItNeverUp

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

Douglas Rushkoff

PeopleBehaviorFastNeverFacebook

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Conan O'Brien

LanguageYouCountryPresidentYour

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Chuck Palahniuk

DownWantPointWithinBreakCoping

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

Anne Wojcicki

HealthUnderstandingDevelopmentDNA

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Sxip Shirey

MusicTraditionNewRuralUrban

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