Blake Farenthold Quotes
I believe that the kids are innocent victims in this. We spent money educating them. Many of them don't speak a word of Spanish, and we're thinking of deporting them. That doesn't make sense.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
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I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach.
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I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
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We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
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I believe that the kids are innocent victims in this. We spent money educating them. Many of them don't speak a word of Spanish, and we're thinking of deporting them. That doesn't make sense.
