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.

Darrell Issa

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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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Past
  • Feel

• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• 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.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Long
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Style
  • Fierce
  • Grammar

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• 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.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Food
  • Road
  • Tough

• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Study
  • Mankind

• 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.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Long
  • Better
  • Year

• I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Characters

• My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Job
  • Age
  • Retail

• If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Years

• When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Job
  • Hollywood
  • Worst

• I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.

  

  Adepero Oduye
  • Friends
  • Black

• You can't put tits and ass on the marquee!...Why not?...Because it's dirty and vulgar, that's why not!... Titties are dirty and vulgar?...Okay, we'll compromise. How about Latin? Gluteus maximus, pectoralis majors nightly...That's alright, that's clean, class with ass, I'll buy it...Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Why
  • Dirty
  • Latin

• My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Experience
  • Changes
  • Fictions

• I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Working
  • Start
  • Trouble

• I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring you. Throw off the shackles of your distant goddess and come to me. Be my love, truly, in body as well as soul and I will give you the world!

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Darrell Issa