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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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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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.
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There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
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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?
