Dennis Hastert Quotes
Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.
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People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80’s. You are here to hustle.
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Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.
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There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
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And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.
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Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.
