Newt Gingrich Quotes
I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.
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There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.
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One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
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You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
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I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.
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I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
