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 only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.
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And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
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Growing up, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were the players I looked up to - and Carlos Tevez when he was at the club.
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There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
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One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
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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.
