It's a federal government responsibility. But it's a Texas problem. And we can't solve the problem with just Anglo Republicans.
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HARRY GRAY The best way to solve a problem is by neutrally considering all its qualities.
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RONALD REAGAN This is an elementary education problem that any one district cannot solve on its own.
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RAND PAUL The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
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MICHAEL ARRINGTON The federal government hasn't made any progress in figuring out the problem.
JOSHUA SLEN You cannot solve a problem without knowing what the problem is
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ANDY ABBOUD We will solve this problem.
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GREG NICKELS Our belief is that you cannot and should not wait for the government to solve this problem.
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HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
DAVID GERROLD The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON If a problem is easy to solve, the progress is fast, and the reward is small. If the problem is hard...
JIM GENOVESE That may solve the problem.
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JAMES CASTLE The problem is not Republican principals. The problem is unprincipled Republicans.
ALFONZO RACHEL It is enough knowing the problem to solve the problem.
JIM GENOVESE Einstein gave us a problem he knew we would never solve.
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E.P. SHELKY We have a greater responsibility to our beliefs than we do to the federal government.
WILLIAM AILA The problem was . . . unique, because of its scope and because there are so many moving parts.
CRAIG CHRETIEN I don't think acquiring fuel for its plants should be a problem.
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STEVE SOUTHERLAND Guys with depression tend to justify its existence. Does that mean it's not a problem?
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BURKE MARSHALL My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.
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SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
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SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
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SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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PATRICK LENCIONI Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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PATRICK HENRY Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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PATRICK HENRY The great object is that every man be armed.
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PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves.
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PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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PATRICK LEAHY We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i...
PATRICK LEAHY Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America...
PATRICK LEAHY I'm a gun owner.
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PATRICK LEAHY You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
PATRICK LEAHY The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug...
PATRICK LEAHY A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan...
PATRICK LEAHY Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why thin...
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PATRICK LABYORTEAUX I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative...
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PATRICK KAVANAGH Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
PATRICK KAVANAGH Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie...
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PATRICK KAVANAGH The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss...
PATRICK KAVANAGH What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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PATRICK KAVANAGH In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti...
PATRICK KAVANAGH How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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PATRICK KAVANAGH There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
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PATRICK KAVANAGH I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
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PATRICK KANE It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l...
PATRICK KANE I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ...
PATRICK KANE When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ...
PATRICK KANE If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p...
PATRICK KANE We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
PATRICK KANE I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha...
PATRICK KANE Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin...
PATRICK KANE I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
PATRICK KANE There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
PATRICK KANE I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
PATRICK KANE I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
PATRICK KANE I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i...
PATRICK KANE The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h...
PATRICK KANE Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li...
PATRICK KANE I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.
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PATRICK KANE Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
PATRICK KANE My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a...
PATRICK KANE It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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PATRICK GEDDES Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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PATRICK FUGIT One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B...
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PATRICK FUGIT I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
PATRICK FISCHLER I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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PATRICK FISCHLER I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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PATRICK FISCHLER I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It...
PATRICK FISCHLER Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st...
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PATRICK EWING I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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PATRICK EWING Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
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PATRICK EWING Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
PATRICK EWING I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity...
PATRICK EWING When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I...
PATRICK EWING I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&...
PATRICK EWING Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
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PATRICK EWING Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
PATRICK EWING Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
PATRICK EWING I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an...
PATRICK EWING If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eigh...
PATRICK EWING Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
PATRICK EWING People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the sma...
PATRICK EWING Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
PATRICK EWING I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
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PATRICK DUFFY I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite...
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PATRICK DUFFY I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso...
PATRICK DUFFY I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ...
PATRICK DUFFY I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ...
PATRICK DUFFY I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A...
PATRICK DUFFY It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc...
PATRICK DUFFY I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
PATRICK DUFFY Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
PATRICK DUFFY There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you ma...
PATRICK DUFFY The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th...
PATRICK DUFFY I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o...
PATRICK DUFFY I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ...
PATRICK DUFFY Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but...
PATRICK DUFFY There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
PATRICK DUFFY Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am...
PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro...
PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don...
PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
PATRICK DEMPSEY In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
PATRICK DEMPSEY With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi...
PATRICK DEMPSEY If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
PATRICK DEMPSEY The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed...
PATRICK DEMPSEY You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
PATRICK DEMPSEY I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
PATRICK DEMPSEY People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
PATRICK DEMPSEY I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take...
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