Dennis Hastert Quotes
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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It doesn't matter who scores the goals, just that we win the games.
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I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
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Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.
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What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
