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Jim Hightower quote: "When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you..."

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' Nancy Pelosi
I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer. Kristen Bell
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. Arthur Goldberg
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane. Abraham Pais
Sting quote: "I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as..."
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like. Sting
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been..."
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met. Maurice Strong
misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. Alexander Dumas
There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do. They can't sit over their wine; they can't play at wist; and they can't pay a lady a compliment. Wilkie Collins
Bob Marley quote: "Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if you’re not..."
Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if you’re not ready for judgment. Bob Marley
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. Margaret Fuller
Mario Puzo quote: "A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men..."
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. Mario Puzo
J. K. Rowling quote: "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. J. K. Rowling
When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not the sweet violet - you know, that early dark violet that smells of melting snow and spring grass. Leo Tolstoy
Moon Unit Zappa quote: "I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself...."
I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here. Moon Unit Zappa