Darrell Issa Quotes
Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I'm a dork!
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
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Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.
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Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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When it comes to matters of health, it's the one thing you can't control. Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted. But the few times that I've seen loved ones in the hospital or not being able to do something they could normally do, it really sucks.
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Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
