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Related [The Bravery are new to Miami but were having no problem navigating the city thanks to a certain vid... SAM ENDICOTT We were looking for a place to go for lunch and we knew how to get there because of the video game. ... MICHAEL ZAKARIN We were having good shots, but we weren't getting many clean rebounds that usually lead to points in... JACK SCHRADER We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got ... BURNIE BURNS Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end SOURCE UNKNOWN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new e... VIN DIESEL It's very frustrating. And given how much effort we put into the last game ... you know, we had 10 d... DANNY CLARK I would assume our fans will greet the Saints the same way we were greeted in Kansas City. In fact, ... JASON WHITTLE The year we beat Miami in the Super Bowl, ... do you know how many defensive linemen were in our rot... BILL WALSH You get the goose bumps going into this week on Monday and Tuesday. You realize how big of a game it... CARSON PALMER I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the peo... DEMETRI MARTIN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Obviously if we had lost, we were going down three [games] to one. But that game gave us confidence ... GLEN WESLEY We were told that the district would share with the city. That is part of the reason that many resid... DALE SWANSON It was a hard-fought game. A real battle the entire time. There were so many lead changes that no le... TOM ROBERGE 'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a... STEVE CARR We really didn't know how the game would go. They were sick and I thought I might have to play harde... ADANMA EKELEDO We came out nonchalant. Everybody was down. There's no reason for it. We came off a four-game winnin... CHERLANDA FRANKLIN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were lik... FLEUR EAST Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villa... AL HORFORD We think it is likely that [Best Buy] will test more broadly as the project takes hold. We know that... ANTHONY GIKAS I don't know how many (went into the stands). But we prepared 40 before the game and at the half, I ... BRYAN BLAKE I was walking down Granville Street, Vancouver's version of "The Strip," and I was looking into one ... WILLIAM GIBSON Obviously, Miami is a different way of life than New York. My grittier street songs are definitely i... JOE CARTAGENA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM We were doing tape backups. But with the hurricanes, we started to think about what would happen if ... PHIL HARTMAN This is just what we needed. We needed to be home in the friendly confines of our arena, in our city... DAVE DICKERSON We were just focused. We just had to keep playing our game and not worry about how they were winning... ALLISON SCHLINKERT The faculty were a little concerned. We got a lot of e-mails about 'How dare you let that guy back i... DAVID SCHMIDLY We are very pleased that New Line Cinema has removed the pornography from the video game. However, w... DR. DAVID WALSH I'll just say that we watched as city bureaucrats jimmied the numbers to make it look like the city ... DAVID MCKINLEY I know there are a lot of country music fans in New York City but the problem with doing a show in N... TRACE ADKINS We have no problem bringing (young) people out for hikes and social activities. But when you flip th... JENNIFER LEE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How woul... AUSTIN GROSSMAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON That game we won last week was for pride, dignity and the city of New Orleans. That's how we have to... CHARLES GRANT The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Having a really solid drummer behind us gave us all a charge. Dave is just this gem in Pittsburgh, t... JEFF SCHMUTZ Everybody said how tough it was to play in Kansas City, that the fans are really on the opposing tea... AMANI TOOMER Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL We are definitely slowing down and charging a lot more for it. We are out of Las Vegas. We are very ... BRIAN HARRIS After the city lost all of its recreational supplies and equipment in the storm, at one point we wer... SEAN CAMPBELL It is much like a video game. ALEX DAVIS It was a tough game, they came out exactly how we expected. We were a little bit ill-disciplined in ... GEORGE GREGAN When you have a big game, the tendency is to have a down game the next day. We were really afraid th... ANDY GENTRY I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL There's lots of small and large opportunities. I don't think we're fully tapped it out, ... We are t... DAVE MORRIS The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ALAN BEAN Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the win... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Anyway, Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel, Sam stood up, and... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started a... DR. SEUSS We were just talking about the Florida campus and how I think they should have signed with Florida. ... BRANDON POWELL I was really excited. I was under control and didn't realize how nervous I would be until I got out ... FAUSTO CARMONA I don't know how many African Americans are left in the city, but it's not that many. There is not e... LAWRENCE POWELL This was one game, ... We should just forget about it tonight, watch the video tomorrow, work hard a... ILYA KOVALCHUK I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how ma... PETER CAREY Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We were fortunate to get the brothers from Louisiana despite what happen to their city. They have br... DEE BOYD I never went down there [to watch a state tournament game] so I don't know what that will be like, b... KADERO TERRELL We were able to withstand the physicality of that game really well. It was a very physical game, and... SCOTT GILMORE This is our last year for sure, racing on Jeffers Street. Merchants started complaining to the city ... JOE HINMAN The pressure is really building. Hopefully, when it comes down to game time we can relax and just pl... MIKE ORTNER Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone ... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN We weren't too fatigued and we had a second wind, but we had the heart to keep driving and keep play... BRIAN STAMPER That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wanti... HASIL ADKINS Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRS (video recorders), and we could "fast forward' throu... CHARLES M. SCHULZ We were like a deer in the headlights last year. I didn't want our guys coming out and hyping this g... RANDY KORTOKRAX We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Once again, we're just making too many mental errors. We were in the game, then we started making tu... DEANN CRAFT The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People... DEB CALETTI We got down by seven or eight points a few times and were able to fight our way back into the game. ... BRAD TOMHAVE A win is a win no matter how you get it. We were expected to win this game and we took care of busin... JUSTIN LETIZIA I was just happy with how aggressive we were at the plate in the second game. It seems like we had t... ERIC MCARTHUR Editor:"Donation To Penn State to Field Div-I Hockey Teams,” 9.18.10: Athletics play a role in the... GENE DETROYER It started out incredible. We were unbelievable. We were moving really well and everything was good.... JIMMY AUSTIN We are innovating away from industry standard at every turn, taking a fresh look at what is out ther... ANDREW HALL For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could ... MIKE DIRNT Any time you go anywhere on the road it is going to be tough. You can't let the other team's fans ge... JASMINE MCCULLOUGH They had the levees behind us and then the water started coming up. They have a lot of work to do. I... BARBARA CARPENTER Just like the notion of "Internet natives", who have never known a world without Internet access, we... ALEXEI MAXIM RUSSELL That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was w... HASIL ADKINS Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the ... ATOM EGOYAN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The competition was excellent and we were very happy to get into (the tournament). We are group A so... KARLE BYRD In Jamaica, we played a few games and found out just how serious this game is. There were a lot of E... GARY GRANT because it lures women in with a marketing scheme that purports feminism, when in actuality the sole... THE BRAVERY the only town in the United States of that name! THE BRAVERY We are anticipating a good number of people will be applying for permits, so we want to make sure we... THE BRAVERY
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SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it. SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along. SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.' SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha... SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never... SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit... SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall... SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b... SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an... SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ... SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. SAM LEVENSON One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im... SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c... SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t... SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l... SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all... SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings. SAM KINISON I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ... SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo... SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild. SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized. SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'... SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers. SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order. SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion. SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change. SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth. SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. SAM KINISON In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up.... SAM KINISON Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl... SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit... SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&... SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it! SAM KINISON You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no... SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. SAM KEEN A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ... SAM KEEN Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr... SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p... SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you... SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman... SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren... SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe... SAM KEAN Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili... SAM KEAN Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges... SAM KEAN Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode... SAM KEAN Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs... SAM KEAN One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a... SAM KEAN Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors... SAM KEAN The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w... SAM KEAN The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents. SAM KEAN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa... SAM KEAN The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and... SAM KEAN Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres... SAM KEAN Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything... SAM KEAN I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat... SAM KEAN Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ... SAM KEAN Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in. SAM KEAN I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w... SAM HUNTINGTON I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th... SAM HUNTINGTON You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo... SAM HUNTINGTON My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b... SAM HUNTINGTON In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t... SAM HUNTINGTON I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w... SAM HUNTINGTON I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ... SAM HUNTINGTON I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di... SAM HUNT Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life. SAM HUNT The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard yo... SAM HUNT I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... SAM HUNT Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be ... SAM HUNT I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I a... SAM HUNT I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me. SAM HUNT People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals. SAM HUNT I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard w... SAM HUNT People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not. SAM HUNT I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up. SAM HUNT It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted. SAM HUNT I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country arti... SAM HUNT After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the w... SAM HUNT By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay. SAM HUNT A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after... SAM HUNT I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain sty... SAM HUNT You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - ... SAM HUNT I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. ... SAM HUNT I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that ... SAM HUNT New experiences give you new perspectives on life. SAM HUNT Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be d... SAM HUNT I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel th... SAM HUNT Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude. SAM HUNT Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to pro... SAM HOUSTON Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a ... SAM HOUSTON