Mark Zandi Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
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The Apollo Theatre was a difficult audience, and if they didn't like you, they would let you know. Luckily, they liked me.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.
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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.
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I'm a registered Democrat.
