Fred Upton Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.
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My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . It is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
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Political parties need to look at the different kinds of support that people may need, suited to their way of life, and provide cost-effective solutions.
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I support renewable energy.
