Fred Thompson Quotes
That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.
