Dennis Hastert Quotes

If the Senate passes it, we'll pass it.

Dennis Hastert

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• Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Live
  • Friend
  • Child

• When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Work
  • Children
  • School

• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Real
  • Love

• My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Different
  • Home
  • Situation

• I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Parents
  • Know
  • See

• I saw a man take a needleful of hard drugAnd die slow

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Die

• I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Women
  • Why
  • Hair

• Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.

  

  Om Malik
  • Beautiful

• I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Wife

• Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • People
  • Growth

• Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them. It was an amazing time.

  

  Charlie Adam
  • Time
  • Amazing

• I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

  

  Neko Case
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Country
  • America
  • Black

• It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Help

• I grew up playing football and baseball.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Up
  • Football
  • Baseball

• The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

  

  Mayim Bialik
  • Communication
  • Profound

• The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.

  

  Kwame Nkrumah

• You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Men
  • Prophet
  • Nuances

• I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.

  

  MF DOOM
  • Character
  • Writer
  • Normal

• I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Work
  • Think
  • Try

• The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Soul
  • Prison
  • Recognized

• If the Senate passes it, we'll pass it.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Senate