Matt Blunt Quotes
If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.
Matt Blunt
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
Zadie Smith
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
Kate Upton
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
Vikram Seth
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I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
Verne Troyer
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Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
Manfred von Richthofen
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I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
Samuel L. Jackson
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
Olympia Snowe
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Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.
Lady Gaga
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
Alexander Pope
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Tender is the nightFor a broken heartWho will dry your eyesWhen it falls apart
Victoria Legrand
Beach House
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I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen
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We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
Albert Claude
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Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
Chris O'Dowd
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To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
James Gleick
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Some girls are intimidated by my height, obviously. But a lot of girls do like it, so that's cool.
Kristaps Porzingis
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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.
Alex Berenson
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I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.
Mary Roach
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Of all things to be learned, in school or out, languaging, as I prefer to call the process, is least like a mechanical skill. It is, in fact, the most intimate, integrated, emotion-laden learning we do. At no point can we separate what we know and what we are from how our linguistic powers develop...
Neil Postman
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As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.
Mircea Eliade
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Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!.
Ezra Pound
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We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.
Mark Burnett
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If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.
Matt Blunt
