Dennis Hastert Quotes
When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.
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I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.
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Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
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Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
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When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
