Darrell Issa Quotes
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.
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I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
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Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.
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Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
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...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
