Dennis Hastert Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.
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The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
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My son has been the best thing that has happened in my life. He has been amazing, and he is truly heaven-sent. And so, I just feel all that love.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
