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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I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing housedresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
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I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.
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You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
