Doc Hastings Quotes
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.
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I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.
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The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.
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Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe them because: a.) my books don't make me laugh out loud; and b.) sometimes I have said this to a writer, when really what I meant was, 'Your book made me smile appreciatively.'
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It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.
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The Spitzer ticket misses the point. The way to create jobs and improve the climate for businesses is to cut taxes and control spending.
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Saw your face, My hand you took Just like in a story book, And you got me Yeah, you‘ve got me
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The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
