Blake Farenthold Quotes
I feel like my mandate when I was elected was to go reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and increase freedom, and freedom isn't free, and sometimes you have to make a small sacrifice to move forward with what you're after.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.
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The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
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People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.
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I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
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I feel like my mandate when I was elected was to go reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and increase freedom, and freedom isn't free, and sometimes you have to make a small sacrifice to move forward with what you're after.
