Denis McDonough Quotes
As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.
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Growing up in America, even in the rougher parts of Elizabeth, I had two nice playgrounds to choose from as a child.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles, respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.
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As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
