Phil Gramm Quotes
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
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In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.
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Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
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If you can't be good, be loud.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
