Darrell Issa Quotes
I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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First of all, magicians practice a lot. It requires a lot of discipline. Second, you can't be afraid to be a leader, to go onstage, and you learn to have presence. You need to be able to visualize and connect and create. Most important, you learn to think outside the box.
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
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I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
