Bill Flores Quotes
If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Good material is good material.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.
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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.
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There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
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If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.
