After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful. ~Dennis Haysbert
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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