- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Day Quotes
Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.
These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Boys and Girls club was basically a second home for me, and I always credit it with keeping me out of trouble. From the ages of 6 to 16, I was there nearly every day.
- Flag
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.
- Gong
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020