Dennis Hastert Quotes
We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
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I think everything happens organically. You mine for clues. It's all immersive, and stuff you can use comes out of that immersion. I don't really like to wear wigs in movies because I like to look like the character all the time.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.
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We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done.
