Blake Farenthold Quotes
Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
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Being Indie wasn't a style decision anymore, which it would have been, in part, when I was really young. It would have been like an aesthetic decision, and a coolness-based decision.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.
