Darrell Issa Quotes
It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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The most valuable thing that anyone will ever give you is their time. Not their money. Remember that.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
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It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.
