Darrell Issa Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that.
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Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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If I try to be or do something noble that has nothing to do with who I am, I may look good to others and to myself for a while. But the fact that I an exceeding my limits will eventually have consequences. I will distort myself, the other, and our relationship-and may end up doing more damage than if I had never set out to do this particular 'good.'
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Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.
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Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.
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If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
