Kent Conrad Quotes
We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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I started drama in high school.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.
