Fred Thompson Quotes
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
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The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
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But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
