Bill Foster Quotes
When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I believe the practice of taking pledges contributes to the worst of the partisan gridlock in Washington, preventing many members of Congress from even considering a reasonable compromise offered by the other side.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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One mistake is that managers practice position-ship rather than leadership. They focus on constituency, the people they need the most and depend on, only caring about how they are viewed by the leaders above them, thereby following position-ship.
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I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.
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When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I believe the practice of taking pledges contributes to the worst of the partisan gridlock in Washington, preventing many members of Congress from even considering a reasonable compromise offered by the other side.
