Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes
I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
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Science, which is the logic of nature, demands proportion between the house and its foundation. Theology sometimes builds weighty structures on a doubtful base.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.
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It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
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I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.
