Jacob K. Javits Quotes
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
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I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.
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If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
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I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.
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When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
