Blake Farenthold Quotes
Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
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Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.
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If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
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Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
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You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.
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Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
