Newt Gingrich Quotes
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.
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I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.
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I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.
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I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud.
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Fashion's transient - it moves.
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My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
