Darrell Issa Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.
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We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.
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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
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My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.
