Doug LaMalfa Quotes
University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.

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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
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I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
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I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
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'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
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University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.