Newt Gingrich Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.
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Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
