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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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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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
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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.
