Fred Upton Quotes
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
